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TIL Vancouver researchers have created an enzyme that changes donated blood into universal type

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R57nQ TIL of Skeuomorphs, objects designed to look like an older version of the same object. Examples include fake buckles on leather shoes, rivets on jeans, mechanical arms on slot machines, and digital apps designed to look like their analog equivalent.
XEwLD TIL people are smarter in the summer and fall, to such a degree that it is significantly easier to diagnose dementia in the winter. Other species have similar “seasonal plasticity”.
4X7yR TIL the secret society “the skull and bones” illegally posses the bones of Apache warrior Geronimo at their Yale chapter…
GYp64 TIL Disney's Tangled is the 10th most expensive movie ever made, beating Avatar by over 20M dollars
Me6eV TIL a foot being 12 inches long is based from King Henry I's own foot.