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TIL that scientists can grow bacon from stem cells.

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vPQR7 TIL if you shuffle a pack of cards, it's likely that you have come up with an ordering of cards that is unique in human history. In fact in a 52 pack of card, there are 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 possibilities.
jN57X TIL Scientists in China have successfully grown tooth enamel which paves the way to replace fillings & crowns. A chemical mixture applied to whole human teeth created an enamel layer 2.7 micrometers thick within 48 hours. (Calcium & phosphate ions with triethylamine in alcohol).
p8dMG TIL that Cherophobia is fear of being happy. It is the belief that when one becomes happy,something bad will happen.
MKYB TIL Police in the UK have shot dead 5 people in the last 4 years. In the US, this figure is 1600
Wk9bA TIL that there are 400 known albino redwoods, which survive by getting sugar through roots of nearby trees.