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TIL Big Pimpin' was sampled from a 1950s Egyptian song

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jN4lN TIL scientists discovered the specific molecule in bees' royal jelly (which worker bees feed to larvae) that aids wound healing, called "defensin-1". Compared to a control, a royal jelly trial & a pure defensin-1 promoted healing of wounds on rats.
EggNP TIL that an alligator can go over 2 years without eating.
or7R TIL the Cult Awareness Network listed Scientology as the #1 most dangerous cult. Scientologists sued them into bankruptcy and now owns the New Cult Awareness Network
e9Gg TIL that the Sr-71 was so fast that if a missile was fired at it the evasion method was to outrun it.
AD86w TIL Princeton's Roger Nelson PhD proposes that human consciousness affects the variance in randomness of hardware-based random number generators. Since 1998, Nelson's Global Consciousness Project uses a global network to create random data over time, which is then associated with real-world events.