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TIL that mitochondria likely exist in cells today because a more complex cell engulfed the smaller mitochondrion around 1.45 billion years ago. It’s been successful symbiosis ever since.

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YD4P TIL that Cap'n Crunch was born “on Crunch Island in the Sea of Milk – a magical place with talking trees, crazy creatures and a whole mountain (Mt. Crunchmore) made out of Cap’n Crunch cereal.” And his real name is Horatio Magellan Crunch
R7nNj TIL If you're coming to work consistently sleep-deprived you're basically functioning drunk.
Br0Ax TIL that a Utah lawyer started a free service making it easier for Mormons to resign their church membership. Thousands have taken him up on it.
yQD0V TIL that a brilliant young British physicist, Henry Moseley, was killed in World War I only at an age of 27. Because of that, during the WW II it was British government policy to give "bright, young scientists" safer job to keep them alive.
epwvb TIL the Native American Single Tear actor was actually Sicilian, not Native American