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TIL Since Camera Phones have been adopted, UFO sightings have plummeted

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pX1G TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.
geQA TIL that Wilhelm Furtwängler, a leading German conductor, called Hitler a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to give the Nazi salute, wrote public letters denouncing antisemitism, and once got into a shouting match with Hitler over Nazi cultural policy.
Za7a TIL President Johnson would regularly expose himself, and when asked why we were in Vietnam, pulled his penis out and said “This is why.”
EwLd TIL since 1989, six-pack rings in the USA have been manufactured to be 100 percent photo-degradable, so the plastic will begin to disintegrate in just a few weeks,
R8vl TIL that in order to play the didgeridoo, you must learn to breath circularly. This is done by simultaneously inhaling with the nose and pushing air out of the mouth. Kenny G used the technique in 1997 to win a world record for the longest note ever recorded, an E-flat for 45 minutes and 47 seconds