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TIL That to combat the theft of trees in public parks around Christmas time, some cities spray their trees with fox urine. It freezes and has no odor outside, but thaws if taken indoors on a would-be Christmas tree, and the smell is "eye-watering"

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M75AV TIL that Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama hated the live-action movie “Dragon Ball: Evolution” so much that it brought him out of retirement and made him write “The Battle of the Gods,” widely considered a highlight of the series
QJloe TIL of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker and whistleblower. On November 13, 1974, she set out to meet a reporter to go public with evidence of extensive safety violations. She was later found dead; her car appeared to have been run off the road and the documents she had with her were missing.
ANLDw TIL in 2020, it was announced that AlphaFold, a neural network based on DeepMind AI, can predict a protein's final shape based solely on its amino-acid chain with an accuracy of 90%. Predicting the structure of a polypeptide from its sequence is considered of the greatest challenges in biology.
WQv8 TIL that in 1999, US forces bombed a Chinese embassy, killing 3 ambassadors and injuring 20. The incident was blamed on outdated maps. China never accepted the US explanation, and it was later revealed that the CIA actually had accurate maps.
JV01 TIL that PSY’s Gangnam Style reached one billion views (the first video to ever do so) on the day that the ancient Mayans predicted the end of the world, December 21, 2012.