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TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues

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9b0M TIL Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest filibuster by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes. He was opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He also later opposed ending segregation.
kOLXe TIL, climbers on Mt. Everest, use the corpses of other unfortunate climbers, as waypoints up the mountain.
e0kR4 TIL in 1999, the mummified remains of a pregnant Hispanic woman were found in a drum in the crawl space of a house in NY. She was identified as Reyna Marroquín, a woman who’d vanished in 1969. She’d had an affair with her employer. He killed himself before police could properly question him.
p5D8 TIL That adult elephants will actively try to kill lion cubs in a kind of retaliation since adult lions are the only animal to prey on elephant calves.
e0An TIL that on the 30th anniversary of Pacman, when Google changed their logo to a playable version of Pacman. Companies reported a drop in productivity and around 4.8 million hours of work productivity was lost that day, as a result there was an estimated loss of $120,000,000 worldwide.