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LkXEd TIL: When scientists found harpoon tips from the 19th century in bowhead whales, they got curious about how old they were and discovered they are one of the oldest vertebrates in the world, living to be over 200 years old.
gML8A TIL during WWII the Dominican Republic took in 100,000 Jewish people fleeing Europe
W5Yd TIL Florida has so much bizarre news stories because the state has exceptionally open public records and a high population
xV5O0 TIL that Bill Gates is making a genetically modified male mosquitoes with self-limiting gene to stop Malaria. During sex, the female mosquitoes will receive the self-limiting gene. This results in having their offspring die before reaching adulthood.
YpvjP TIL The Y2K bug was real but the predictions of a world-shaking disaster were utter nonsense and caused by hucksters looking to profit from it.