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TIL: Korean scientists cloned puppies who glow red under UV light

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GYly1 TIL of Baby Nancy, a girl who died shortly after birth. Her father, an officer on the USS Utah, brought her ashes aboard with the plan to bury her at sea. During the Japanese attack, he escaped the ship but could not rescue Nancy's ashes, and they are still in his locker to this day.
LXpp TIL A Swedish couple refused to name their child. When they were charged for leaving their child nameless for five years, they submitted the child’s name as “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116”.
b6x69 TIL Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbour, once studied at Harvard University in the United States and was appointed naval attaché to the Japanese embassy in Washington.
eD04 TIL In a song in 2004, Cookie Monster revealed that, before he ate his first cookie, he believes his name was Sid
mkmy TIL that gladiators were probably fat due to a high-energy vegetarian diet, which included calcium-rich ash. This fatty layer helped protect them from otherwise-lethal wounds.