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It might look pretty but Jupiter’s Great Red Spot could literally tear the skin from bone.

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eo0b TIL that 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV/AIDS because their CCR5-delta 32 has mutated preventing the virus from entering the cells of the immune system.
pY74e TIL House cats are more closely related to Walruses than Aardvarks are to any other animal alive on the Earth today
R5krw TIL while writing "The Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck borrowed from the notes of Sanora Babb without her knowledge. She was using the notes for her own book, which was then shelved by the publisher, and finally published in 2004
6WkQ TIL: Marilyn Monroe was raised in foster care & later, admitted to 2 psychiatric hospitals. Her mother was unwed & mentally unstable when she gave birth. Her mother & both maternal grandparents were in mental institutions. To escape foster care, Marilyn married one of her neighbors when she was 16.
X0e6j TIL that scientists in Japan over a decade ago created an odor recorder that could analyze, store, and reproduce smells.