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TIL we are close to be able to grow new teeth.

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Oo1Xa TIL that George B. McClellan, the mayor of New York in 1904, was to symbolically start the first train at City Hall station and the hand it over to an engineer. However, he enjoyed himself so much that he refused to stop controlling the train until he reached 103rd street.
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.
p8GM8 TIL in 2016, a fleck of paint hit the 6-inch-thick windshield of the International Space Station and went about 3 inches into the glass.
awEeo TIL both House Bill and Senate Bill 420 are of matters relating to marijuana. HR 420 is about Marijuana Regulation, while SB 420 is about Marijuana Taxation.
XEp8D TIL Every single German spy sent to Britain during WWII was either imprisoned or recruited as a double agent - fooling the entire German High Command and massively contributing to the victory.