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TIL that scientists created the first synthetic living cell in 2010; they called it “Synthia.”

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YB4x TIL that Graham Chapman from Monty Python asked John Cleese to say “fuck” at his memorial service, just so he would be the first to do so. Cleese also started his eulogy with excerpts from the “Dead Parrot Sketch”, and at the end all the Pythons sang “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life”.
Ojvg TIL Canada granted asylum to Denise Harvey, a U.S. Citizen who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for having sex with a 16 year old because it wouldn’t be a crime in Canada and the sentence was deemed cruel and unusual punishment
yQALp TIL about Terry A. Davis, creator of the free operating software Temple OS. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in his early 20's, Davis created the software because he stated that God commanded him to. He was able to finish most of the software by himself before his untimely death in 2018.
pYJQA TIL the current world record for memorising a deck of cards and reciting it fully is 12.74 seconds
wL99M TIL the skin on your lips is the same as the skin on your butt hole