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TIL Scientists are on the verge of being able to produce viable, living human organs via 3D bioprinters.

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mN7Y TIL in 1996, as a April Fool’s Day prank, the Taco Bell Corporation took out a full-page ad that appeared in six major newspapers saying that it had bought the Liberty Bell and was renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. The National Historic Park in Philadelphia received hundreds of outraged calls.
DQx7J TIL about the Varangian Guard. It was an elite military unit composed of Vikings and some Anglo-Saxons who were recruited to serve as the personal bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors. The Byzantines exclusively hired foreigners as they lacked any political allegiance.
vN6B TIL During IBM Watson’s Jeapordy Game, it stored all 15 terabytes of it’s knowledge in RAM, including every page of Wikipedia in existence.
aw54b TIL Upbeat 70's classic "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest was written as an idealized version of the night writer Sherman Kelly was brutally attacked and left for dead by a gang.
5YmxR TIL In the Middle Ages the word "poop" meant to blast a horn. By the 1600s it was slang for farting.