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TIL that Russian scientists were able to revive an arctic flower, extinct for 32,000 years, from a seed that’s been borrowed by an ice age squirrel, buried in Siberian permafrost.

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r78M TIL Researchers in Tokyo have developed a mirror that tweaks the viewer’s reflection in real-time to make it look like they’re smiling. The projected application for this tech is for use in shopping mall bathrooms, in hopes that happier shoppers will buy more.
Zp054 TIL that On September 10, 2001, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a press conference that $2.3 trillion from Pentagon had gone missing, but the 9/11 attacks took attention away from this news, so it was forgotten.
8eEea TIL that the cornea must breath on its own by absorbing oxygen through the tears and the atmosphere because it has no blood vessels to receive oxygen
DY8r TIL there are certain organs that have “immune privilege”, and will never be rejected in the case of a transplant. These include the eyes, brain, and testicles.
VBLlp TIL that before there was the Silk Road, the Maritime Jade Road was established in Asia in the second century BCE starting from Taiwan travelling southwest to the Philippines and reaching all the way to Arabia