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TIL The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) is Believed to br a Microbe That Existed About 4 Billion Years Ago!

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0dJVA TIL that -40 degrees is the only temperature that is the same in Fahrenheit and Celsius
mA9x TIL five teens who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia with racist graffiti were sentenced by a judge to read and write reports on 35 books by authors such as Elie Wiesel, Khaled Hosseini, and Maya Angelou. They were also ordered to visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
NEW8 TIL that Yale University is named after Elihu Yale, “the most overrated philanthropist in history,” instead of main philanthropist Jeremiah Dummer, because Dummer College would have been a bad name.
b9R90 TIL A font called Doves Type was lost in 1917 after one of the creators threw the printing blocks into the River Thames. Some of it was recovered by divers in 2015
4krBg TIL fruit flies (drosophila melanogaster) share 60% of human DNA, making them perfect for research that has led to vital strides in the treatment of cancer, autism, and diabetes. Six Nobel prizes have been awarded for research involving fruit flies.