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TIL gene editing technology exists today
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TIL In an effort to reduce the high number of suicides on South Korea’s Mapo Bridge, it was unofficially renamed the Bridge of Life. It was decorated with positive affirmations and even sympathetic sculptures. Suicides increased sixfold the following year.
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TIL Chlorine was originally put into pools to stop the spread of Polio.
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TIL that luxury fashion brands like Burberry burns their unsold merchandise worth million dollars in order to prevent putting a lower price on them
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TIL that the word “Ewok” was never mentioned in Star Wars.
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TIL about Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, who was a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom. She was the daughter of Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of Punjab. She played a leading role in the Women's Tax Resistance League and was instrumental in winning women their right to vote.