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TIL that scientists can grow bacon from stem cells.

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j6yBM TIL that in 2017, a truck carrying 7,500 pounds of slime eels overturned on Oregon's Highway 101, causing a massive slime spill, a multiple-car pile-up, and traffic.
a80G0 TIL Oklahoma jails women for a "failure to protect" law where if their SO is abusing children in her home and they fail to do anything about it they can be sent to prison. Typically the women's sentence is longer than the one who abused the children.
PY46J TIL