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TIL that women were encouraged to hand men who hadn’t enlisted to fight in WW1 white feathers, as a symbol of cowardice.

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69Rvl TIL that regenerated lung tissue has been implanted into living rats, which has helped to make progress in lung disease treatments. Yale said "When implanted into rats for short intervals of time (45-120 minutes), the engineered lungs exchanged oxygen and carbon dioxide similarly to natural lungs."
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