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TIL Researchers Turn Spinach Leaves Into Beating Heart Tissues

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R5Vk8 TIL: Canadian JW Boucher served in the American Civil War and World War 1
4XoON TIL cascata delle Marmore (Marmore falls), Italy, is the tallest man-made waterfall in the world at height 165m (541 feet), and it was created by ancient romans almost 2300 years ago
v44j TIL an engineer in the 1930’s apparently created a “rainmaking machine”, made it rain in several places and then disappeared without a trace
QJyv9 TIL That in order to circumvent a ban on shorts, Swedish male train drivers have started wearing skirts to work.
M5G0 TIL that if players pirated the video game “Game Dev Tycoon” - a game where the goal is to create and sell video games for profit - their in-game games get massively pirated which renders it unplayable.