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TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues

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Kep9 TIL Only very tiny amounts of the chemical in trick noisemakers can be prepared at once, as even the weight of the crystals can cause them to self-detonate.
6EZOw TIL that about 110 children are kidnapped by strangers every year in the United States. About 40% of such cases end in the child's death, and another 4% with the child never being recovered. The vast majority of the 50,000+ yearly reported missing children cases are resolved with the child found.
VMXDZ TIL of the Boyd-Parker Torture Tree, where two American Revolutionary War soldiers slowly removed their own intestines.
6E4G8 TIL The Allies considered bombing Auschwitz in an effort to stop operations at the concentration camp.
ya58 TIL Declassified Documents Prove the US used “Cloud Seeding” to extend the monsoon season during the Vietnam War