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TIL that in 2008 a proposed forensic technique suggested analyzing antibodies. It was said to be faster than DNA though wasn’t intended to replace it.

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JKoV TIL the late comedian Chris Farley was going to be the original voice of Shrek. He finished more than 80% of the voice recordings before he died. The recordings have never been released to the public.
a8AY0 TIL: A Single Watermelon Once Sold For $6100
m1vrE TIL the CIA funded the exhibition of modern art in Europe in the 1940s-60s in order to wage a cultural war on the Soviet Union. Via the Rockefeller Foundation and MOMA, the US government funded abstract expressionist exhibitions believing that they represented a counterpoint to Soviet realism style
DkEe TIL that scientists successfully connected a paralyzed patient’s brain to a tablet who was able to type and surf the Internet
Me8Rm TIL that the word 'Eskimo' is considered derogatory and was a word used by non-native colonizers to refer to people living in the Arctic regions