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TIL about endospores - bacteria that can lie dormant in permafrost for over 10,000 years

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GAWLJ TIL that all Ashkenazi Jews are at most 30th cousins because of a genetic bottleneck about 700 years ago.
e0AWJ TIL in 2007, the Russian company Rossiya broadcasted television footage showcasing the Russians planting a flag at the bottom of the ocean in the North Pole. A 13 year old boy from Finland noticed some of the footage the station used was from the film Titanic.
W7L TIL before Ang Lee directed Brokeback Mountain, Gus Van Sant wanted to make a version starring Matt Damon and Joaquin Phoenix. It never got off the ground, partially because Matt Damon “didn’t want to do a gay cowboy movie right after doing a gay movie and a cowboy movie”.
7omp TIL Baseball superstar Tim Raines slid head-first while stealing to avoid breaking a vial of cocaine in his back pocket
jNMYa TIL Sushi is the vinegared rice, not the raw fish (or other) that comes when you order it.