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TIL that the word “Afghanistanism”, which means the practice of concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues, is almost 70 years old

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9YDBD TIL lab-grown meat has been made from living animal biopsies, fresh meat, cell banks, or feather roots & has been made from muscle, fat, or stem cells. Cells go into a vat of culture medium to proliferate into meat cell mush; patties & sausages have been created but fillets have not yet been made.
wBk1 TIL there are a pair of craniopagus conjoined twins whose brains are so intertwined, they share all of their senses. They see what each other sees, taste what each other tastes, feel what each other feels.
X6oQ TIL An 18 year old freshmen funded his education by asking 2.8 million people for one penny.
MenDb TIL that Dan Grimaldi, who is best known for playing Patsy Parisi on "The Sopranos", teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community College, as he has degrees in mathematics, operations research and data processing
d8wxj TIL A woman won 1.3 million lottery. She didn't tell her husband and immediately divorced him to avoid giving him half. He found out and sued. Due to Family Code statute that penalizes spouses for falsifying data about their property during divorce, judge ordered her to give him 100% of the winnings