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TIL A place in San Francisco has been making bread with the same starter for 160 years.

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dO1Z TIL: Nazis destroyed Germany’s largest institute focusing on human sexuality in 1933 that studied and advocated for Gay and Transexual rights, burning their extensive library and research as it was deemed “Un-German”.
x6rDo TIL the marbled lungfish's genome contains 133 billion base pairs, making it the largest known genome of any vertebrate
1JBX TIL that the United States Marine Corps is older than the United States.
0wlNN TIL that it is illegal to sell, manufacture or import chewing gum in Singapore. The law came about in 1992 as a result of vandalism and littering in both high rise public housing apartments and in public transportation systems. In 2004, exceptions were made for nicotine and dental gum.
VM68m TIL 'fight or flight' is actually a description of the male response to acute stress. The female response can be more accurately described as 'tend and befriend'. This has implications for how we think about what stress does to our bodies and how best to cope with and recover from it.