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TIL that MIT engineers have created a robotic, snake-like thread that can navigate through narrow blood vessels in the brain, promising treatment for strokes and other blockages.

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p8enA TIL, Judy, a dog that spent a good part of world war II in a japanese prison camp protecting prisoners from being beaten - by taking the beating her self. Judy recieved the Dickin medal for her effort
P1YVE TIL about the Royal Grand Knockout Tournament 1987 which featured several members of the British royal family (Prince Edward, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson) and celebrities (Meat Loaf, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, John Travolta) competing on a special It’s a Knockout course.
GAorJ TIL when the Eiffel Tower was proposed, anglers in Paris feared that the tower would discharge lightning into the Seine and kill all the fish
4XYMg TIL a bridge in Ireland that was designed to swing open for ships couldn't be opened for four years because someone lost the remote control
wD0o TIL Cheese originally started being dyed yellow and orange in the 17th century to fool people into thinking it was a higher quality