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TIL All modern penicillin can be traced back to a single moldy cantaloupe from a small grocery store in Peoria, Illinois

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NKDQ TIL changing another country’s weather is classed as a war crime under the Geneva convention.
J1l9B TIL John Nash, who was portrayed in the movie A Beautiful Mind, died in a car crash with his wife on the New Jersey Turnpike in 2015 while coming home from Norway where he received the Abel Prize
d8b0d TIL Using advanced scanning techniques, Japanese and French scientists have discovered a 30 m long cavity in the Great Pyramid, above the Grand Gallery. The 'big void's purpose may remain forever a mystery, unless authorities approve drilling a small hole and lowering a robot inside to investigate.
yVNvw TIL a “ferocious rabbit” ran amok in Central Park in 1917. He terrorized the sheep in Sheep Meadow, maimed dogs, and fought an orangutan in the zoo.
N7RaP TIL that many birds do not breed very well in small flocks and that Zoos use mirrors to help increase reproduction.