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TIL a graduate student invented a leaf made of silk that produces oxygen.

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VMpBm TIL of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer who agreed to donate his body to science prior to his execution in 1993. Jernigan’s body was encased, frozen, and cut into 1,851 slices. Images of those cuts are now used by medical students and radiologists as a human anatomy correlate for CT and MRI images.
oQyK TIL that malaria has killed close to half of all humans who have ever lived, predominantly children
ne8wd TIL magnolia plants are so ancient that they're pollinated by beetles because they existed prior to bees appearing
78a6Z TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands.
nL59 TIL lebanese star Mia Khalifa has been received death threats, including having her head cut off for doing porn