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TIL that the UK is the first country in the world to approve the creation of babies using three peoples DNA.

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j65NR TIL That (Only) Afghanistan use Zodiac signs as the names for their Months
yvEv TIL John Adams once said that if we learned there was no God or life after death, we should all just take a bunch of opium.
rNRky TIL in 2006, William Shatner sold a kidney stone for $25,000 to an online casino. Shatner then donated all the proceeds to charity.
j6nrQ TIL there are over 200 "wind phones" in the US where grieving people can 'talk' to relatives - they feature an old-fashioned phone booth with a phone with a dial on it, and were first popularized in Japan after the Fukushima tsunami
EgPJX TIL that the ancient Greeks placed a coin in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It is a myth that they placed a pair of them on the eyes.