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TIL a 172 year old specimen at the Mütter Museum helped researchers fight a modern cholera epidemic

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8aJQa TIL the man responsible for cookies is Lou Montulli. He developed one of the earliest Web browsers, Lynx, in 1991, and was responsible for a variety of Web innovations including the blink tag, server push and client pull, and HTTP proxying.
R5Rv9 TIL that the column of Borso d’Este in Farrara Italy is constructed of Jewish tombstones. They discovered the tombstones when they were removed during a restoration project in 1960. The tombstones were then put back into the column instead of being replaced by more appropriate materials.
J1Pa4 TIL that Nepal has a festival devoted entirely to celebrating dogs!
69V8X TIL Tony Scott, director of the original 'Top Gun,' jumped to his death from a bridge in California in 2012, with his brother, famed director Ridley Scott, revealing Tony had been fighting cancer. However, a subsequent autopsy revealed that there was no trace of cancer in his system.
x5d7 TIL that China bans depictions of time travel in films and TV