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

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VVd8 TIL that in 1990 the US Ambassador to Iraq was threatened with execution if he was harbouring Americans he responded with a press conference; where he wore a noose while declaring “If the choice is to allow American citizens to be taken hostage or to be executed, I will bring my own fucking rope"
pjL4 TIL that no U.S Navy submarine is ever considered “lost” if it does not return, it is considered to be “still on patrol”
40ob TIL a minor character in the Marvel Universe has fought and beaten such household names as Deadpool, Dr. Doom, Thanos, and Galactus. Her main superpower is the army of squirrels she commands.
KYE1B Today I learned that if a man is truly interested in being with you, he will call, text and make plans to see you.
LkQ59 Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful "whole-brain preparation" of a mammal was developed in the mid-1980s. A neuroscientist at NYU Langone Medical Center named Rodolfo Llinás came up with a way to keep the brain of a young guinea pig alive in a fluid-filled tank for the length of a standard workday.