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TIL the Human Genome Project started in 1990 and by 2003, scientists had successfully documented 92% of the genome. However, it would take until 2022 before the final 8% was mapped and a full human genome was completely sequenced.

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logrB TIL Nelson Mandela was good friends with Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, and was once listed on the U.S. trerrorist watch list. He was also a fan of the Spice Girls.
dDElr TIL that there are over two dozen universities in the U.S. that have their own nuclear reactors.
AnN4 TIL the longest & straightest overland route on earth is the most complicated deadly path to travel and no one has supposedly done it.
R5dr1 TiL: In the early days of airmail a pilot, named Dean Smith, was forced to land on a cow causing his plane to wreck. It scared him.
1jg8 TIL: More than two-thirds of the DNA-cleared homicide cases documented by the Innocence Project were caused by false confessions.