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TIL DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville | Spain

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oB4dY TIL there are only around 120 anonymous Michelin restaurant inspectors in the world. They spend 3 out of every 4 weeks on the road, and must vacate a region for 10 years if they think a restaurant suspects their identity.
9YZ66 TIL of Justine Sacco who before a flight to South Africa in 2013 tweeted to her 170 followers "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm white!" By the time she landed she was the number one trending topic in the world and had been fired
7rMap TIL that my band still isn' famous
nePXr TIL that meal worms can break down plastics like Styrofoam and sadly "No attempts to commercialize this discovery have been made."
8GKK TIL that prior to Harry Harlow’s controversial experiments on infant rhesus monkeys, the medical community in the US believed that physical contact between mother and infant wasn’t necessary beyond feeding. His findings were considered revolutionary at the time, but are now widely accepted.