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

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16WEV TIL that although the British regiment of Charles Roberts were massive drunks, they still managed to capture Fort Mackinac from the Americans in 1812, without a single loss of life.
mx6dy TIL that, during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the extreme heat caused one man's brain to turn to glass.
b0AZ TIL Ibn Al-Haytham, a Muslim physicist and scientist that lived during the Golden Age of Islam, is credited with the creation of the scientific method that has became the basis of Western science today.
5VOe8 TIL The oldest named individual tree, christened "Methuselah", was found by Dr Edmund Schulman (USA) and dated in 1957 from core samples as being more than 4,800 years old (4,852 years as of 2020)
594Q TIL a sharp knife does less damage to the cell walls of an onion, releasing less propanethial S-oxide, the irritant that causes you to cry.