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TIL The Incredibles takes place in the 1960's

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GARDG TIL 95% of Catholic bishops, including Pope Francis, can trace their lineage in the church to one extremely prolific 14th-century bishop, Scipione Rebiba
5VMEQ TIL about sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent developed in the late 60's and which revolutionized protein analysis, as it unfolds proteins and gives them the same shape and electric charge density. This later led to the development of a technique called SDS-PAGE, which separates proteins by mass.
nnr9 TIL - There is a garden in Alnwick England which is dedicated entirely to flora which are deadly and/or narcotic
v1ny4 TIL In 1984, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky released a computer game called "Mindwheel" where the player traverses the minds and memories of deceased individuals. The goal is to retrieve the Mindwheel, which “contains the secret of the world’s best values.”
GEM1 TIL the winner of the marathon at the first modern Olympics (1896) stopped for a glass of wine at a local inn along the route