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TIL Iceland is still trying to reforest land from when the Vikings conquered the country over 1000 years ago.

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KYGnR TIL: Phil Seddon, is a zoologist and former chair of the De Extinction Task Force, which determines which animals can ethically be brought back without harming the ecosystem. Through advances in cloning and with evolutionary molecular biologist Dr. Beth Shapiro, it is close to fruition.
pYWe8 TIL In 1996 a parody of the video game Myst was released. It was titled Pyst, and starred John Goodman.
Lkded TIL that Theodore Roosevelt Jr., son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was the only General to storm the beaches of Normandy in the first wave. He walked the beach with his cane, waiving his pistol, and rallied the troops. He would receive the Medal of Honor for his actions on Utah Beach.
4XNV6 TIL The band Phoenix once played a secret concert at a high school in Austin. To attend, the students needed to have perfect attendance.
gMlbX TIL How often you hold your baby actually affects their DNA. The researchers looked at a process called DNA methylation. When they compared the methylation between the children the cells of the low-contact children were less mature than they should have been given the child’s actual age.