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TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues

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wL4NM TIL that hersheys produces all cadbury products in the U.S and banned U.K made cadbury from being sold in the states
MpBa TIL Johnny Depp adopted his horse GoldenEye from the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. After hearing the one eyed horse was to be put to sleep, Depp jumped in and adopted him.
oBOZR TIL of Operation Bloodstone, a CIA project to recruit former Nazis and collaborators to conduct "psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, [...] assassination, target capture and rescue". Many hired agents were high ranking Nazis, some of which had committed crimes against humanity.
vyb4 TIL that Jerry Jones, in order to have nothing come from Pittsburgh, had the steel for the new Cowboys stadium shipped from Luxembourg
WkWRX TIL That even though William Shakespeare wrote over 400 years ago, we continue to use words and phrases found in his sonnets and plays today. Phrases such as... “Cruel to be kind”, “be all and end all”, “world is my oyster”, “break the ice” and many more...