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TIL President Bush’s AIDS initiative has saved over a million people’s lives.

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60xZ TIL Newborns recognize their native language. In an experiment on 4 day olds, researchers presented French babies with recordings of a bilingual speaker telling the same story once in French, and once in Russian. The babies,who had “overheard” French in the womb, showed a preference for French
PYMBw TIL Donnie Yen (the blind monk in Star Wars: Rogue One/star of the Ip Man films) was once leaving a Hong Kong nightclub with his girlfriend when they were attacked by a gang who had been bothering them earlier in the night. Donnie hospitalised 8 of them.
M7eOa TIL about galalith, a synthetic plastic made by the interaction of casein (found in milk) and formaldehyde invented in the 1920s to replace materials such as ivory or horn
kOBVW TIL George H.W. Bush came very close to being eaten by cannibals in WW2
EkX7 TIL that a company called FANUC operates a factory where no lights, a/c or heat are needed for production because it’s just robots building other robots.