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TIL Scientists are using cloning technology to bring extinct species back to life. According to some, we may see resurrected species within the next ten years

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nWjE7 TIL that researchers actually studied the brain activity of free-style rappers to figure out how they improvise lyrics on the go.
9y1G TIL that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve, the full line is, “Heavan has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
kGBg TIL Sylvester Stallone, aka ‘Rambo,’ sat out Vietnam from 1965-67 teaching girls’ PE at a Swiss school, before coming back to the US to get a deferment before ultimately flunking a draft board physical
8a1Z8 TIL that in Budapest, you can find something which makes any train-lover heart beat faster. MÁV-424 called also “The Buffalo" with two chimneys and a 2′D axle layout (4-8-0) was a universal mainline locomotive at the beginning of the 20th century.
LVpV TIL a boy scout created a hazardous radioactive site in his backyard while trying to build a nuclear reactor using household items, and was arrested in 2007 for stealing 16 smoke detectors, which contain radioactive material.