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TIL in 2007 scientists discovered Sildenafil (Viagra) helps treat jet lag recovery in hamsters.

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BrGbd TIL The US had secretly buried nuclear waste in Greenland during the Cold War that neither the US nor Denmark wants to clean up now.
YpgoW TIL Mark Hamill voiced his criticism on director/writer Rian Johnson’s treatment of Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, saying, “I fundamentally disagree with virtually everything you’ve decided about my character”. He later apologized for “voicing my doubts & insecurities in public”.
xyQB TIL that over 90% of pregnancies in the United Kingdom and Europe with a diagnosis of Down syndrome are terminated.
VBVDB TIL cats are the number 1 killer of birds in Canada. It's estimated that keeping cats indoors could save 200 million birds each year, and cats have contributed to the extinction of 34 species of birds
OaNg TIL some Matrix fans believe that Neo’s special powers worked in the “real world” because the real world was another simulation, suggesting an Inception-esque “Matrix within a Matrix” system.