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TIL that during WWII Polish children and women were given refuge by an Indian king.

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VMRND TIL Since female dairy cows are much more valuable than bulls we use machines to sort bull semen into male vs female semen. These machines work based on the fact that XX semen have more DNA than XY, and thus greater mass, and can be automatically discriminated when colored with florescence.
l7KPV TIL that Sheb Wooley, best known for the 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater", also created The Wilhelm Scream.
Lkmj9 TIL Golden rice is just NORMAL RICE genetically modified to contain VITAMIN A because where rice is part of the staple diet people were DYING with deficiency
1Xmd TIL Pedophiles are of significantly lower IQ and even height than average and suffer from head injuries at double the average rate
jNPMX TIL that Steven Spielberg wanted to direct a James Bond film but was turned down by Eon Productions. When he told this to George Lucas, Lucas said he had a film that was just like it but even better. The story was about an archaeologist named Indiana.