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TIL the Beatles’ record sales helped fund research that led to the development of CT scans (computerized tomography)

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rNpQd TIL of the Goler Clan - a group of poor, rural families living in Canada whose lineage showed incest dating back to the 1860s. In 1984, it was discovered that many Goler children experienced physical and sexual torture at the hands of mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, sisters, brothers, and cousins.
e0K5L TIL that roundworms survived 30,000 years frozen in the Siberian permafrost. When thawed by scientists, they began moving and eating as usual.
j6oQa TIL that "poetry" is named after the writer Edgar Allen Poe.
KO48w TIL when Samoset met the Pilgrims at Plymouth, he already knew enough English from fishermen to say "Welcome" and ask for beer.
5VAoP TIL that the USAF accidentally detonated a dirty bomb by San Francisco, through sheer incompetence.