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TIL Cornell University modified a human embryo with a protein to glow in the dark in the first documented modification on a human embryo

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wlWP TIL That a highly publicized suicide will dramatically increase the number of suicides the following 2 months.
0wwVy TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
6laZ TIL before R.L. Stine published his award winning children’s book series “Goosebumps” He was contracted to write “Spaceballs: The Book”
em54 TIL that lemurs have “Stink Fights” where they rub their tail in their scent glands and try to make their opponent smell like them.
QJyjL TIL: In 480 BC, King Xerxes I of Persia built bridges to invade Greece. But a storm destroyed these bridges. Enraged, King Xerxes threw chains in the sea, whipped the sea 300 times and burned it with red-hot irons as his men shouted at the water. The next bridge built was not destroyed.