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TIL that the Mawangdui Silk Texts, discovered in a tomb in China, are ancient manuscripts from the 2nd century BCE. They contain early Taoist texts, medical theories, and the earliest known maps, all written on silk.

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jNNXv TIL a group of small (1 mm) adult Caenorhabditis elegans worms, living in petri dishes enclosed in aluminum canisters, survived reentry and impact with the ground and were recovered weeks after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003, found alive on April 28 of the same year.
oBwBK TIL that Charles Vance Millar, a rich Canadian financier, made his will one last practical joke. In it, he left three men who hated each other a joint lifetime tenancy in a villa, some protestant ministers $700,000 in Catholic beer stock, and anti-horse racing advocates $25,000 in Jockey club stock.
6Ek9X TIL: That in 2003 April the Tomb of Gilgamesh was supposedly found.
J1aNB TIL that the wealthiest athlete in human history, was an ancient Roman charioteer from what is now Portugal, named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His combined earnings were the equivalent of fifteen billion dollars.
R5Dmw TIL scientists have figured out how to transfer memories & erase certain memories from snails brains