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TIL: The Entire History of the World was Distilled into a Single Chart in 1931.

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6jBJ TIL in 2001 it cost $100million to sequence a genome - now it costs $1000
16rPD TIL Angry French tailors burned the first successful sewing machines setting back their use in garment manufacture by several decades
E14Yd TIL that Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World was sent an email from a high school girl who talked about how she didn’t quite fit in with others, wasn’t part of any social groups, and felt like she was stuck in “the middle”....so he wrote a song about her.
WkEXd TIL Dr Jack Kevorkian, aka "Dr Death", successfully researched transfusing blood from corpses into living patients. He presented his findings to the Pentagon as a means to help save lives in Viet Nam. However, he was denied funds to continue his research and his process was never adopted.
VMGgp TIL in 1918, microbiologist Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized to protect people from various diseases. She was met with skepticism, particularly because she was a woman and did not have a Ph.D. During the 1920s, scientists around the world made the same findings