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TIL Human cloning is federally legal in the United States, and is only banned by 15 states.

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ly67 TIL In the month before the ancient Olympics no wars were permitted so that spectators could travel from across Greece unharmed,
Z8NRB TIL one of the Dead Sea Scroll caves, discovered in 1952, contained up to 15,000 torn fragments. One archaeologist spent his life piecing them together, but died in 1979 with the work unfinished.
ZpwWo TIL that contrary to belief, arranged marriages weren't the norm in Ancient India. According to the Mahabharata, the parents of King Bharata (from whom India gets its co-official name) fell in love and married each other alone in a forest.
awgOJ TIL that Fatboy Slim sampled so many songs to create "The Rockafeller Skank" (also known as "Funk Soul Brother") that he had to give up 100% of the song's royalties to pay the original artists.
1vbO TIL that only around 5% of Buddha’s teachings have been translated to modern languages; a global non-profit group named 84,000 aims to translate all of Buddha’s teachings to modern languages in order to combat the possible loss of this cultural heritage