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TIL Dr.James Watson, Nobel Prize winner & co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix structure, believed that babies shouldn’t be considered alive until 3 days after birth so that if the baby is sick, disabled, deformed, or deemed otherwise unacceptable, the baby can be legally left to die or euthanized.

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0O5v TIL that elephants skeletons are designed to carry weights under them, not on top, and many Elephants end up with deformed and broken backs as a result of years of long hours spent carrying tourists around.
MeNMV TIL Jeff Goldblum can play piano and has a prolific jazz career
er14 TIL that the color magenta does not have a wavelength. It’s the product of combining red and blue light, which are on the opposite ends of the visible light spectrum, so our brains fill in the gap with what they think the color should be.
0wOnA TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.
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