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TIL that Researchers had found 100 Percent Match Between Mysterious Hairs and Ancient Polar Bear DNA

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Lk0E0 TIL In 1926 Poland sent the United States a birthday card. With 5 million signatures.
69d8l TIL a charity restored the sight of a 60-year-old amnesiac who thought he was much younger. He had been blind for 9 months because he couldn’t afford cataract surgery.
wLBaE TIL in 1985, Takahashi Meijin (real name Takahashi Toshiyuki) became a celebrity in Japan when he managed the feat of pressing a button on a video game controller 16 times in one second on television. It's still a world record.
Ov9g TIL New Yorkers bite 10 times more people than sharks do worldwide
rNEEM TIL about Soviet Zveno aircraft carrier planes. The converted bombers would carry fighters or dive bombers beyond their operational limitation, and launch them when needed. Despite being based on pre-WWII bombers and going through many configuration changes, they had a very high success rate.