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TIL that an entire award winning novel, Solar Bones by Mike McCormack is written in only a single sentence.

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x6P70 TIL the chromosomal cap, called telomere, grows shorter during cell division. Researchers also found out that most old people have shorter telomeres, that some telomeres had never shortened in those who lived past 100 years old, and that cancer cells don't die because their telomeres don't shorten.
n60d TIL that Reporters without Borders considers the UK an “enemy of the internet”
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