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TIL Scientists have turned spinach into beating human heart tissue

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5aXB TIL of a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.
l7ZbA TIL that Louis XVI literally did not know how to have sex. When he tried with Marie would ‘’ introduces the member," but then "stays there without moving for about two minutes," withdraws without having completed the act and "bids goodnight’’
9YK9X TIL that human subjects have been shown to grossly underestimate exponential growth. "Neither special instructions about the nature of exponential growth nor daily experience with growth processes enhanced the extrapolations."
9Y7bp TIL of Jallianwala Bagh massacre. On 13 April 1919, British Indian army opened fire on a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians killing at least 400 and injuring over 1000 people.
OEZL TIL when Tiberius made it illegal to pay a prostitute with a coin that bore the image of the emperor, brothels began issuing Prostitute Tokens, with depictions of the sexual act on the front and the price on the reverse.