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TIL that woolly mammoth proteins were just recently directly imaged for the first time. A scientist used an electron microscope to image the collagen protein of mammoth bone at the molecular level.

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0w7b5 TIL Wikipeida have tried to adopt a mascot. Suggestions have been a monkey behind a typewriter, an amoeba, Cliff Clavin (from Cheers), The Thinker, an owl, slime mold, termites. The most common mascot is the anime influenced Wikipie-Tan, a Moe personification of the site. She's still unofficial.
9bDM TIL that film scores were not originally done for artistic reasons, but to drown out the sound of the projector
QNgM9 TIL Compulsive gambling affects about 5 million U.S. residents.
e0X7L TIL of Georgi Dimitrov, an influential Bulgarian antifascists communist. In 1933 he was arrested by Nazis following the Reichstag fire. He refused juridical counsel, and his defense and conduct became so famous a popular saying spread: "There is only one brave man in Germany, and he is a Bulgarian."
5YYOn TIL Thor's hammer only weighs 42.3 lbs.