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TIL Lab Mice are unintentionally bread with long telomeres which could invalidate most studies involving mice.

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DQDvv TIL about the Graham's number. It is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, the smallest measurable space. The last 13 digits are ...7262464195387
m1ELv TIL that following an Asiana airline crash in 2012, a summer intern working at the NTSB "confirmed" the names of the flight crew to a local TV news station as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow. The intern and 3 producers from the station were later fired
ajJM TIL: A Study about butter, funded by butter industry, found that butter is bad for you
m9VP TIL that long ago, people chewed on tree bark as a method of pain relief. Willow bark has a high amount of salicylic acid, an ingredient still used in aspirin today.
GjJ4 TIL There is a long-term care facility in the Netherlands that allows college students to stay for free in exchange for 30 hours of volunteer per month. When students come home from a class, concert, or party, they share those experiences with their elderly neighbors, some of whom are over 90