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TIL that Galileo was born in the same year that Michelangelo died, and died in the same year that Newton was born

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P17ZZ TIL that an Australian man who lived by a cliff prevented at least 180 suicides in his 45 years of living there, by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide and inviting them to his house for tea.
4XWYN TIL that Thailand is in the year 2563. They use Buddhist calendar instead of the gregorian calendar explaining the 543 year difference
wvAM TIL the genetic make up of your DNA predicts whether or not Cilantro tastes like soap to you. Researchers took DNA samples from 30,000 people and identified the gene OR6A2 as the factor involved in disliking Cilantro.
mxYLp TIL that red pigment (carmine) in most foods is made from crushed insects called cochinaels.
BgWmd TIL the museum considered to have been the first museum in world history was founded in Ur circa 530 BC. Known as Ennigaldi's museum (named after Ennigaldi, a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire), it showcased cataloged and labelled artifacts from the preceding 1,500 years of Mesopotamian history.