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TIL there is an archive of all major live television network broadcasts from 9/11 as it happened. “We can only tell you what we know – there’s been some sort of explosion at the World Trade Center.”

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6NKl TIL that “runner’s high” is chemically equivalent to smoking marijuana.
dDyBZ TIL there are other factors involved, other than just the father's xx or xy chromosomes, in determining which type of sperm fertilizes an egg and human behavior may have a hand in how those factors affect which type of chromosome/sperm impregnates an egg.
p5v8 TIL there is a band that only uses Arnold Schwarzenegger Movie lines in their songs
AN75d TIL Australia is wider than the moon
W7e5L TIL that a piece of a transplanted liver can grow into a full-sized, fully functional liver in the recipient in about six weeks. At the same time, the donor's liver regenerates to replace the missing section.