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TIL: Creationism is alive and well with 2 in 5 Americans believing humans have only been around for the past 10,000 yrs

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1ROX TIL The extinct Pyrenean ibex was resurrected by cloning
9Qyr TIL The last ruling king of Egypt, King Farouk once had a nightmare about lions attacking him and decided to go to the Cairo zoo and shoot two lions while they were in their cages.
QNWgd TIL sleep helps clean our brain. Or in the words of the journal Science, “Observations showed that when mice sleep, channels between neurons in their brains expand, allowing cerebrospinal fluid to flush out detritus, such as proteins that in human beings are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.”
7nPM TIL The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in bore the number plate 11 11 18. This assassination directly lead to the start of the First World War - which ended on 11/11/18.
0wjmL TIL that in 2020 Poland extended an international flight ban list of 43 countries, including Andorra. However, Andorra was taken off the list after a short time because "Andorra does not have an international airport."