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

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R7Mo7 TIL Adventurer Robert Swan's eye color altered permanently from dark to light blue after walking through a hole in the ozone layer during his trek to the South Pole.
Zpk8p TIL: In the 2000s, Microsoft internally parodied their own box design and created a video clip showing how the iPod box would look if they designed it
e04Qb TIL that the crew for the Apollo 15 lunar mission all graduated from the University of Michigan. During their mission, they left behind a certificate establishing a UM alumni chapter on the moon.
DQwWg TIL that a retired print technician from Yorkshire David Smith in 2023 discovered the Einstein tile, a single tile that is capable of tiling the plane aperiodically thereby solving a long standing open problem in mathematics.
xV7o7 TIL In 2016, Manchester United canceled a game and evacuated the stadium after a steward discovered a pipe bomb in the bathrooms. Fortunately, the bomb was a fake; it had been left there by the security team during a training exercise and forgotten.