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TIL before Ozzy Osbourne developed Parkinson's Disease, his entire genome was sequenced to help understand how he survived all the drugs and alcohol he consumed.

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lDMr TIL a Dutch city known as Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110 birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras.
oBa7 TIL that “no one has actually ever found a real pirate’s buried treasure map.”
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