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TIL Galileo's middle finger is on display in Florence

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Y7g1G TIL that even though elephants have 10 times more body cells than humans, they’re still less likely to get cancer.
l8kN TIL that a jazz bassist named Ron Carter has appeared in over 2,500 albums, making him one of the most recorded bassists in jazz history.
d8bmQ TIL that the USA and New Zealand are the only countries that allow to market prescription drugs directly to consumer.
Mejrm TIL The Ukrainian famine—known as the Holodomor, a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death”—by one estimate claimed the lives of 3.9 million people, about 13 percent of the population
69EJl TIL The crane machine is named after the crane bird