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TIL that DNA has a 521-year half-life

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wLveW TIL of Dr. Sanduk Ruit who has successfully cured over 130,000 people of blindness.
WkgkA TIL Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general who told Hitler to go fuck himself
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