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TIL Bob Barker is Macklemore’s step grandfather

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WmPB TIL in 2004, Jon Stewart went on CNN’s TV show Crossfire and criticized hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala for the partisan and sensationalized nature of the show. The show was cancelled next year, with the President of CNN citing and agree with many of Stewart’s points.
78xbx TIL scientists used AI to design brand new antibiotics that cured MRSA in mice, and researchers also found a totally new class of antibiotics from soil (lariocidin) the first in decades. Both could help fight drug-resistant superbugs
deX8 TIL during World War 1, feminists and suffragettes handed out white feathers to shame men into enlisting in the army and lobbied for instituting an involuntary draft of men, including those who lacked votes due to being too young or not owning property.
nErY TIL Christian Bale turned down the role of James Bond, saying “I’ve already played a serial killer.”
x6Mn1 TIL: Humans are not a preferred prey of Great White Sharks and it is theorised that they might find us too bony, as opposed to blubber rich seals.