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TIL that C3PO and R2D2 aren't just Star Wars characters—they're different types of proteins involved in RNAi!

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9wPGQ TIL that water bottles can expire. Not the water but the plastic bottles.
LxmV TIL in 2004 van Gogh’s great-grandnephew, Theo, was murdered for making a film about violence against women in Islam. He was shot more than 8 times, cut in the throat to decapitate him, stabbed in the chest and stabbed with another knife attaching a note that threatened Western countries & Jews.
xoG0 TIL fruit cakes can last hundreds of years and then eaten if preserved with alcohol.
aPaL TIL when Spielberg first showed John Williams a cut of Schindler’s List, Williams was so moved he had to take a walk outside to collect himself. Upon his return, Williams told Spielberg he deserved a better composer. Spielberg replied, “I know, but they’re all dead.”
XmZj TIL when you get blackout drunk you don’t actually forget anything. Your brain wasn’t “recording” in the first place.