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DLgJ TIL around 3000BC a meteor crashed into the Indian Ocean, creating a 30km-wide crater. This caused a tsunami to hit coastal areas, including Mesopotamia, which be the origin of the flood myths (such as Noah’s Ark)
AMG4 TIL there is an entire market behind the scenes of buying and selling the blood that selfless people donate. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry.
kOrmd TIL that the heart doesn't develop cancer because the cells don't divide and replicate enough to mutate into cancerous growths.
mx6PP TIL that a man shoving a glass bottle up his own ass was a rather large factor in the breaking up of Yugoslavia
lDv7 TIL scientists announced they are “50% there” to creating a “chickenosaurus” after they successfully modified the beak of a chicken embryo to resemble the snout of its dinosaur ancestors in 2015