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TIL that the Ampersand used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet

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KBZJ TIL that the 1972 Miami Dolphins are the only team to win the Super Bowl with a perfect season. There’s an urban legend that every season, whenever the last remaining undefeated NFL team loses its first game, all surviving members of the ‘72 Dolphins open bottles of champagne in celebration.
rRPYx TIL scientists are now taking stem cells and growing "mini-brains" which mimic the neural activity of a preterm infant. The so-called organoids are not yet capable of complex thought - but could soon be used for medical research and one day lessen the need for human and animal research subjects.
7bl7 TIL that Harry Potter was born in 1980, making him 35 this year.
jNwGE Til About the Babe Ruth Story, a 1948 biopic of the eponymous baseball star that is considered to be the worst baseball film ever made. In it, Babe Ruth is portrayed as miraculously healing several children and a dog with his baseball antics.
oR0W7 TIL China's Last Emperor worked as a Street Sweeper and Gardener in Beijing after serving 10 years in a re-education camp