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TIL that scientists successfully cloned an extinct goat back to life, but it died very shortly due to breathing problems.

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7rb9P TIL a sinkhole at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky swallowed eight Corvettes, causing millions of dollars worth of damage
GYXjN TIL Because of a poorly developed cerebellum, there’s a family of humans who never learned to walk upright.
b4LN TIL that existential depression is a certain type of depression that arises when an individual confronts certain basic issues of their existence. To over simplify, simply living makes people not want to live.
awNMM TIL the French philosopher Michel Foucault was paid for his famous debate with Noam Chomsky in hashish
OobBg TIL of Thalidomide, a "safe" drug made by the german pharmaceutical company Grunenthal, that deformed thousands of babies around the world because it was sold as safe for pregnant women, when it was not. The company never made up for it, and today's FDA rules were created in response to this drug.