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TIL in 2013, scientists sequenced genome of a horse that had been kept frozen for the last 700,000 years in permafrost in at Thistle Creek, Yukon, Canada

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GAeD7 TIL Peru has a prison just for for Ex-Presidents of the South American country. It can hold up to 3 people at any one time and is currently full.
VbQB TIL that the UK is the first country in the world to approve the creation of babies using three peoples DNA.
4XlEX TIL Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman were in the same acting class and were voted by classmates as “The Least Likely to Succeed.”
BgXDk TIL that the Canadian animation studio CINAR, the people behind Arthur and Caillou, was embroiled in a financial scandal that lead to one of the longest criminal trials before a jury in Canadian history
06jj TIL that Paul and Linda McCartney only agreed to be in the “Lisa the Vegetarian” episode of “The Simpsons” if Lisa would remain a vegetarian throughout the rest of the series.