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TIL Avocados are actually really large berries.

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JkZv TIL a clinical trial in 2016 held at Stanford University School of Medicine found that injecting modified human stem cells directly into the brains of chronic stroke patients can re-enable patients to walk.
neX8o TIL that Dr. Carlo Urbani recognized the emergence of a outbreak of pneumonia as a new epidemic and immediately notified the WHO, personally flying to Hanoi to investigate. He would die this day in 2003 of SARS, having triggered the most effective response to an epidemic in history.
wEAJ TIL in 2004 makers of “Action Man”, Hasbro asked children to vote on whether the main villain should be allowed to live. They killed him
XEvkR Today I learned about a 93 year old man building a cathedral on his own and has been for 40 years.
nWpV9 TIL that in 1979, an unknown man known as the "Toynbee Tiles" artist began placing mysterious tiles embedded in the streets of cities across the U.S. and South America, featuring cryptic messages about resurrecting the dead on Jupiter.