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TIL The Beatles cartoon was a historical milestone, as it was the first weekly television series to feature animated versions of real, living people.

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Z8APa TIL about Jono Lancaster who was born with Treacher-Collins syndrome. He travels to meet children with the same disorder in hopes of inspiring them to embrace their features and live their lives to the fullest
xy01 TIL that when the Emperor told his people that Japan was surrendering in WWII, almost no one understood his Classical Japanese dialect!
VMmoG TIL That 10% of americans have diabetes
BrWGr TIL that the Milky Way galaxy is located in a comparatively empty region of space known as the KBC Void. At approximately 2 billion light-years in diameter it is the largest known void in the universe
160jW TIL There is a gene (ced 9) that prevents apoptosis (cells committing die) and now I’m wondering what happens if that gene does work