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TIL in 1992, a couple donated their egg and sperm to a local hospital. In 2020, that frozen embryo was finally implanted into a woman which which resulted in the successful birth of the world's first '27-year-old' baby.

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mxZOE TIL of four guys who went on 20,352 mile horseback ride across the U.S. visiting every state’s capital in from 1912-1915. It was the most epic “road trip” of their time but they received relatively little recognition for it.
N7lBJ TIL a desert in South America went 500 years without recorded rainfall.
e9vE TIL that when the Sears catalogue began to be printed on glossy paper instead of “regular” paper, the company received complaints because people found it harder to use as toilet paper
x6AVg TIL that Robert Franklin Stroud, was a convicted murderer in solitary confinement. While there, he raised a collection of 300canaries & published his research on avian pathology,which was useful in finding a cure for diseases affecting farmed birds; earning himself the nickname "Birdman of Alcatraz"
64Bl TIL That the US Pentagon wants packs of robots that will hunt down “uncooperative humans”