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TIL gene editing technology exists today

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KONwB TIL the three point line didn't start in the NBA until 1979, 1986 for NCAA and 1987 for high school.
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
N7jA6 TIL that the success World War II fighter ace Douglas Bader was put down to him having lost his legs in an aerobatics accident before the war, which allowed him to pull higher g-forces in combat turns without blacking out.
LQQe0 TIL the Dragon Ball Resurrection F Movie including the Title was inspired by a song about Frieza
kORGg TIL Neither the FBI or New York recorded the 9/11 attack in the crime statisitcs report for 2001. They claimed this single event would skew the entire crime statistics program and therefor could not be counted as deaths in New York.