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TIL that in 2012 scientists genetically modified a bird flu virus, which had a 60% human mortality rate, to aerosolize it in order to 'more effectively manage the trajectory of pandemic viruses'. It scared them so badly that they paused all research for months

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yVOoa TIL that one’s anus can be removed.
XGJr TIL A study has found that some soldiers are so attached to their bomb disposal robots that they treat them as if they had personalities, mourn them if they became damaged by enemy explosives; and even hold funerals for them when they ‘die’
jbEQ TIL that Thomas Edison invented a motorized “stencil-pen” which was directly adapted into the very first tattoo gun.