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TIL 4 teens with vaginal aplasia (born with no vagina) received vagina implants grown in a lab using their own vulva tissue biopsies & pelvic scans. Later, all reported normal arousal, lubrication, intercourse, orgasm; 2 women were able to have the vagina connected to the uterus for reproduction.

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M7krb TIL that the earliest generation with a formal name ("Arthurian Generation") is, coincidentally, Generation A by the informal lettered system. The only ones that DON'T from there are Q (often lumped in with P), X (the first to even get a letter), Z (names proposed but disputed), and α (too recent).
ymOe TIL of a guy who made a chicken sandwich literally from scratch – he grew a garden, harvested wheat, slaughtered a chicken, travelled to boil ocean water for salt, etc – it took him 6 months and cost him $1,500. He didn’t think it tasted very good.
l7GKr TIL in 1907, chemist Leo Baekeland accidentally overheated a mixture of chemicals while trying to find a substitute for shellac. Instead, he created Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, which transformed manufacturing and paved the way for the modern plastics and polymer industry.
grry8 TIL the Adam and Eve also existed within Canaanite mythology. Adam was a god who was sent down by the great gods to save the tree of of life, and the world, from the serpent.
eo4k TIL that the last Nazi soldiers to surrender in World War II did so on September 4, 1945 - two days after the official Japanese surrender.