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[TIL] about Free Solo Climbing, where people climb mountains or peaks without any safety equipment or ropes

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00g5 TIL that scientists have created kittens that glow in the dark to help fight AIDS
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XE5WE TIL Danny Trejo has been in over 353 movies, and when IMDB tested his knowledge of which movies he had been in, he passed with flying colors.
698XW TIL of Matthew Hopkins. A witch hunter who (Along with his colleague John Stearne) put so many people on trial for witchcraft that they beat out every witch Hunter of the last 160 years and single-handedly spiked executions from 1644 to 1647. Over 300 women.
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