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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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ZwRY TIL In a 2010 interview, IBM’s CEO said: “We could have improved quality and reduced the costs of the health-care system by $900 billion. … I said we would do it for free to prove that it works. They turned us down.”
a1Eb TIL in the 1910s and 20s a young man who dressed fashionably to attract women but didn’t have much else going for him was called a “jellybean”
yVo7J TIL American gas prices are less than half of Danish gas prices
bExa TIL when the first settlers arrived, oysters were so numerous in the Chesapeake Bay that they were able to filter the whole bay about once a week. Their current numbers are less then 1% of what they were at that time
66MJ TIL that an Incan girl who was sacrificed to the gods 500 years ago was found frozen on a mountain in 1995. Her body was so well preserved that scientists were able to confirm that she ate vegetables 6-8 hours before her death.