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TIL the study that began the “vaccines cause autism” hysteria was proven to be a COMPLETE fraud

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Kavw TIL That a friendly exchange between an American and Chinese player in the 1971 World Ping-Pong Championship prompted Mao Zedong to invite the American table-tennis to China, helping re-open Sino-American relations for the first time since the cold war.
5k69 TIL that Bowling Balls 12 lbs or less float in water
b9Qgp TIL that all modern horses are likely descended from a single male ancestor. Wild stallions were aggressive and untamable, so he was probably a timid stallion for whom domestication was the only chance to get laid.
MVeB TIL Cornell University modified a human embryo with a protein to glow in the dark in the first documented modification on a human embryo
5Ydnn TIL that a "macaroni", as mentioned in Yankee Doodle, refers to a 1700s trend wherein some men would dress up in ridiculously over the top clothing and speak in a gender-ambiguous manner. The name came from young men who had toured Italy referring to fashionable things as "very macaroni".