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TIL ever since 2003, MIT has published an annual list of 10 breakthroughs in technology. 2020's list included anti-aging drugs, AI-discovered molecules, and hyper-personalized medicine.

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Z8vEG TIL: Captain Cook experimentally, & successfully, used sauerkraut, fermented cabbage, to combat scurvy in his crew, caused by a lack of vitamin C due to poor ship diets on long sea voyages
9wP06 TIL that, by one definition, Canada did not become politically independent of Great Britain until 1931. Because it was a gradual process, it is quite difficult to identify a single date of Canadian independence.
9ykr TIL that there are gold plated ATMs in various countries that dispense gold bars (first ATM was located in Abu Dhabi). The machines are fitted “like an armored vehicle” and tested with explosives to prevent theft.
QNdZp TIL that there is substantial research supporting the existence of “daddy issues”
nWl9B TIL about the South African Black Rain Frog that looks like an angry avacado and fills itself up with air to appear rounder, like a pufferfish, when feeling threatened.