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TIL genetic memory can transmit specific sets of fears, ideas and knowledge to descendants.

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yMJM TIL of a three year old Russian girl who survived for 11 days in Siberian taiga forest by drinking from a creek and eating berries while being protected by her dog which went to get help after nine days and returned with rescuers.
dBY7 Today I learned that James Earl Jones and Madge Sinclair, who portrayed the King & Queen of Zamunda in Coming to America, also provided the voices of Simba’s parents Mufasa & Sarabi in The Lion King
KY6yE TIL that Micky Dolenz of The Monkees was the owner of the third Moog synthesizer ever commercially available, and used it to perform "Daily Nightly" in the first use of a synthesizer in a rock recording.
699wm TIL the small and exquisite Shropshire sun pendant looks like art deco, but this gold treasure is in fact 3,000 years old, from a time when it was assumed the local Britons were living in huts or caves
wo6xo TIL that the power density in the Solar core is about 276.5watts/m3, less than the power density produced by the metabolism of an adult human.