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TIL current scientific data support the idea that the first prokaryotic cell likely formed when an archeal cell captured a bacterial cell, causing them to merge and to eventually become the first prokaryote on Earth.

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WkMNA TIL of Norman Borlaug, a scientist who developed and promoted higher-yield wheat, started the Green Revolution, and may have saved over a billion lives through better agriculture.
Xl4D TIL Isaac Asimov once said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our life, nurtured by the notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Z8Nea TIL the famous blue sinkholes in Yucatán, Mexico are left over features from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.
VMv08 TIL that many nations and countries such as the United States of America, Matla and Europe have a "National Personification" which is a mythical-like being created as a physical representation of the nation itself.
rNeWM TIL that the winner of the 1927 Alaska Territorial Flag design competition was a seventh grade orphan named Benny Benson. He was awarded a watch with the flag emblem on it and 1,000 dollars for education that he put toward studying diesel mechanics.