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TIL scientists are developing edible meat grown from stem cells, which they hope will replace meat from slaughtered livestock.

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mQPy TIL there are over 50,000 Chinese characters. An educated Chinese person would only know about 8,000.
1NoD TIL in 2004, the 276 member studio audience of the Oprah Show were each given a Pontiac G-6 sedan. Oprah told producers to fill the crowd with people who “desperately needed” cars. On average each person was slapped with a $6000 tax bill.
D1ppJ TIL In 1974, The Godfather premiered on NBC over two nights from 9-11 p.m.. Both nights, at 11 p.m., New York City's Municipal Water Authorities had some overflow problems from all of the toilets flushing around the same time.
BMjW TIL that astronauts in the ISS “do their laundry” by having new clothes shipped to them in an unmanned spacecraft that then has the old clothes put into it and is burnt up upon reentry.
Oo9rR Til the Great Chinese Famine had more deaths in areas at produced more food per capita. Nancy Qian and Pierre Yared showed that aggregate production was sufficient for avoiding famine and that the famine was caused by over-procurement and poor distribution by the government