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TIL For 1 day in February 2018, China's internet censors banned the letter 'N'

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gMNEX TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m
LBKr TIL that in ancient Rome the punishment for parricide, killing one’s own parent(s), was to be whipped repeatedly and then sewn up in a leather sack along with a serpent, a dog, a rooster and a monkey. The sack was then thrown into a river.
8xl8 TIL if you don’t identify as an “extrovert” or “introvert,” you might be an “ambivert.” An ambivert is moderately comfortable with groups and social interaction, but also relishes time alone, away from a crowd.
5Vakn TIL "The brain doesn't finish developing until 25" is a myth likely based on a study that tested brain development on subjects up to the age of 25.
MekKW TIL Elephants resist cancer because of a gene called P53 that can either order repair of a damaged cell, or order to kill it. Most of the time P53 chooses the latter. The LIF6 gene carries out the orders to eliminate the cancerous cells.