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TIL that embryos can be frozen for decades before being successfully born!

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4dno TIL that Christians only started believing in literal 6-day Creationism during the last 100 years.
PmZE TIL That Tommy Chong and Jordan Belfort were cell mates while serving time in jail, and Chong encourage him to write his book, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
DAyv TIL Michael the gorilla was taught sign language by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began signing “Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth. Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole.” Researchers believed this was a description of the poaching death of his mother.
wL17o TIL Theoretical physicist Abraham (Avi) Loeb made the case that microbes could have been ejected into space from earth by asteroid impacts billions of years ago, in a reverse kind of panspermia, theoretically leading to life being spread across the solar system or further.
gMwVD TIL One of the first soldiers to charge the beach on D-Day was a Canadian bagpiper, who only survived because he said German Snipers thought he was to crazy to shoot