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TIL that there are no longer any significant scientific barriers to a form of human cloning. In 2018 Chinese scientists successfully cloned two crab-eating macaques named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua--the first primates to ever be successfully cloned.

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mxxnP TIL that in october Dick Advocaat, coach of Luxemburg, said before their soccer game against Sweden that Sweden won't beat them with 8-0. Exactly that happened, which resulted in Luxemburg and Advocaat's homecountry, the Netherlands, dropping out of World Cup selections.
xRKb TIL Columbus thought that some manatees he saw were mermaids. He wrote that they were ‘not half as beautiful as they are painted’
mgmE TIL that Your Brain Stays Half Awake When You Sleep In A New Place
r50e TIL: The US is not in compliance with the Chemical Weapons Convention - they missed their final extended deadline to destroy over 3000 tons of chemical weapons.
Ya5P TIL that hundreds of prisoners were left to die in their cells during Hurricane Katrina as officials abandoned the prison.