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TIL there's a bio-hacker project to produce insulin cheaply.

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w8K6 TIL that we have been warned that Iran will have obtained a nuclear bomb “within years” since 1984.
npwo TIL that the lightsaber Samuel L Jackson used in the Star Wars movies had the words “bad motherfucker” engraved into it.
A5B7 TIL, the FBI arrested nearly all of the top officials of Crystal City, Texas in one afternoon on felony charges varying from bribery, to illegal gambling, and even human smuggling.
D1EYe TIL, "Genghis Khan" Was just a title meaning "ruler of all", his given name was Temüjin Borjigin.
KO8yQ TIL that in 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.