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TIL the oldest object in England’s Crown Jewels is a spoon

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OoeP7 TIL the initial survivors of the Flight 123 crash died from delay in the rescue due to nearby American forces being told to stand down and the rescue party waiting until the next morning to begin the search
XyYQ TIL a study involving 165 patients with Alzheimer’s found that those treated with the highest dose of an antibody drug, aducanumab, experienced an almost complete clearance of amyloid plaques (that supposedly lead to the irreversible memory loss and cognitive decline).
G4Z5 TIL the song “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison was originally titled “Brown-Skinned Girl”, but was changed to “make it more palatable for radio stations”
Wk1oX TIL Serial Killers are more likely to have suffered a head injury as a child than non-serial killers.
5YDeB TIL a newly crafted DNA base pair, an unnatural base pair (UBP), has been used to create a semi-synthetic organism that can make amino acids and proteins not otherwise found in nature