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TIL LabCorp owns a fleet of planes and has the call sign SKYLAB

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7l4P TIL Joe Pesci has only been in 2 movies since 1998.
Me88a TIL Taylor Swift used facial recognition at a concert in 2018 to identify known stalkers. The photos were taken at a rehearsal clip photo booth and transmitted to s control center for processing, without the fans knowledge
woxV7 TIL that the official language of Malta is a Semitic language, not a European language
KOxR6 TIL that R2D2 and C3PO are two important proteins involved in RNA interference. It's a process that leads to silencing of specific genes depending on their requirement in the cell. They are named after the Star Wars characters with the same names.
NgJ6 TIL there’s a place in Mongolia that was declared sacred by Genghis Khan. The only people allowed to enter were the Mongol Royal Family and a tribe of elite warriors, the darkhat, whose job it was to guard it, punishment for entering being death. They carried out their task for 697 yrs, until 1924.