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TIL that Russia has a monument to laboratory mice, to celebrate their contribution to science

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5VYJB TIL that the art of weaving Dhaka muslin, which was worn by Marie Antoinette and Mughal rulers, has been revived. It was lost in the 18th, but following rediscovery of the cotton flower used to make it, Bangladeshi weavers are working to revive it.
99WB TIL Tin Foil Hats actually amplify, not protect one’s brain from radio waves.
woKQo TIL that the Fahrenheit scale was standardized 18 years before Celsius. The world switch due to the British Empire. The United States is actually using the earlier standard.
l7b7 TIL Comedian Demetri Martin graduated from Yale in 1995 and got accepted to Harvard Law School, but went to NYU Law School instead on a full scholarship
69Bk8 TIL Chinese youth are starting to become sexually active. A study in 2013 showed that about 24% of undergraduates had experienced premarital sexual intercourse. This was an approximately 4-fold increase than reported in 2002