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TIL A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life.

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nW7p7 TIL The movie Crossfire (1947) was based on the book The Brick Foxhole (1945). The book focused on homophobia but the film was changed to focus on anti-semitism because the Hays Code prohibited homosexual content.
neXW7 TIL about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "the Godmother of Rock and Roll". Tharpe was a pioneer in her guitar technique; among the first popular recording artists to use heavy distortion on her electric guitar and her technique had a profound influence on Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Keith Richards
8eYoa TIL world-renowned herpetologist Karl Schmidt was fatally bitten by a boomslang (an arboreal African elapid). To get some data out of the situation, he described every symptom in detail almost until the point of death.
W7GkY TIL that according to an estimate by astronomer Simon Driver, there are about 70 sextillion stars (or 70 thousand million million million stars) in our observable universe.
OGZZe TIL heart disease is more commonly found in male captive gorillas compared to female. It is one of the leading causes for gorilla mortality in captivity. “Death due to external causes was 4.45 times more likely among females than males.” [2]