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TIL Scientists managed to edit human embryos, freeing them from a piece of faulty DNA which caused a deadly heart disease that ran in families. The embryos were allowed to develop for 5 days before they stopped the experiment.

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Y70PP TIL Early home radios were referred to as BC capable, meaning Broadcast Channels. BC was AM signals, but AM was not a common reference until FM radios came along and they had to distinguish between them. Much like early records were never called 78s until after 33s and 45s came along.
R5kw9 TIL cleveland has an abandon subway system
O5we TIL the winners of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin received an oak tree as a gift from Hitler.
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a87VN TIL that Elizabeth Holmes' father was an executive at Enron, a corporation which famously collapsed after it was discovered that they had continually and egregiously defrauded both their own investors and the federal government.