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TIL Greenland sharks have an estimated lifespan of up to six hundred years.

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QQ9 TIL that a massive 1km^3 particle detector sits under the South pole.
pYvjG TIL American dislike bean-y taste of soymilk
K9Vw TIL that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed to have extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos was, unbeknownst to himself at the time, actually the first to produce human embryos via parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction.
5DaP TIL Jim Rice, of the Boston Red Sox, rushed into the stands in 1982 to help a young boy who had been struck in the head by a line drive. Rice carried the boy onto the field, through the Red Sox dugout and into the clubhouse, where the young boy could be treated by the team’s medical staff.
Ek9p TIL that before her 7-day trip to space, NASA engineers asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was the right number for the mission