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TIL “Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps” originally meant attempting something ludicrous or impossible

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XEgED TIL about how we test toxic chemicals without using animals: instead, we use data mining software to mathematically predict toxic effects based on the molecule's structure.
VB1j8 TIL that at $30 billion, Stan Lee has the highest career-film box office revenue gross of any other actor or actress in history, although his roles have all been brief cameos in Marvel films
njaG TIL that chimps kill tortoises by thrusting a stick up the turtle’s ass. But they don’t eat them.
kJQKE TIL that the “frog won’t jump out of a pot before being boiled as long as the heat is turned up slowly” myth is false. Frogs are cold blooded and naturally move to cooler place if they get too hot.
J1Z4Q TIL that the first baby born in the White House was born into slavery