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TIL that scientists have engineered micromotors powered by bacteria and controlled by light

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g8w8 Til that Roman Emperor Nero is the most decorated Olympian. With 1,808 wins.
eplLg TIL Salmon literally rot alive when they migrate back to spawn
wAQ8 Today I learned that there are no surviving copies of Socrates’ actual work. Everything from him was written by Plato, with comments by Xenophon, Aristotle, and Aristophanes.
kOyb7 TIL about Operation Platypus: in 1943, Winston Churchill randomly demanded a live platypus from Australia. The poor platypus (named Winston, of course) was sent across the ocean to Liverpool but died just 4 days before the arrival when the ship got attacked by a U-boat attack.
PjRL TIL that in 1944 in South Carolina they used a Bible as a booster seat to electrocute a 14 year old boy.