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TIL that a boiled egg can be unboiled with centrifugation

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MeoNb TIL all members of the Canis genus (wolves, jackals, coyotes, dholes and lycaons) are genetically compatible, meaning they can have healthy, fertile puppies as if they all belonged to the same species
GYwB1 TIL In 2014 the CDC once found a smallpox sample that they had lost and didn’t even know it. It was just laying around in some random storeroom.
8QwK TIL that Jonathan Lee Riches got the Guinness world record for having filed the highest number of lawsuits in the world. When he heard of this, he sued the Guinness Book of World Records
NXgLe TIL that Michael Jackson's Thriller album was the best-selling album in the U.S. for 2 years straight, sold 32 million copies worldwide by 1983, and was certified 34x Platinum by the RIAA in 2021, making it one of only two albums to ever get more than 3x Diamond certified.
9wdX7 TIL: The oldest time capsule in the US was buried in 1795 by Governor Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House and was found by accident in 2014 by workers trying to fix a water leak