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TIL about ShipGoo001, novel bacteria and archaea, accidentally found in the rudder housing of a research ship.

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gNBX TIL superstar Romantic poet Lord Byron called his contemporary, William Wordsworth, William “Turdsworth”
5Y08n TIL American rapper Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album ‘DAMN’. This marks the first time the Pulitzer Prize in Music went to someone outside the classical or jazz community.
gypD TIL that Yulia Volkova, co-singer of russian band t.A.T.u, despite being bisexual and supporting lesbianism, is a total homophobe when it comes to gay men.
9YJD6 TIL In 2011, regulators fined a Hong Kong TV station $39,000 for airing a report suggesting that former Chinese President Jiang Zemin had died. Jiang later appeared on a TV show with his successor Hu Jintao
69Y1l TIL scientists is 1962 tested LSD on an elephant named Tusko at the Oklahoma zoo, the elephant died.