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TIL Quentin Tarantino directed two episodes of CSI.

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4XVM6 Til Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong despised each other. Soviet agents claim Stalin had ordered Mao to be fed well during his 10 days visit Moscow. Maos excrement was collected daily for test. Scientists wanted to determine the state of mind of the Chinese leader by examining excrement
p7Me TIL a man was once killed and eaten by his collection of spiders, snakes, and lizards. He was found draped in silk, spiders coming out of his nose and mouth. Chunks of his flesh, torn off by lizards, had been carried off by his tarantulas.
VM7Xm TIL In his early phases of Alzheimer's in 1995, 84 year old Ronald Reagan still received visitors at his office and worked out daily with his personal trainer. Routine is important to Alzheimer’s patients, and on good days Reagan's routine was the the same as it had been since leaving office
X0Jm8 TIL The moderen shipping container called CONEX box (CONtainer, EXpress) was invited for Korea and Vietnam war then reinvented by Malcom McLean, a now defunct company.
v1naD TIL that it's possible to rejuvenate cells. Scientists were able to restore vision in old mice with this technic.