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TIL that my frequent "coldsores" have actually been a condition called angular cheilitis

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X61P TIL a professor of molecular biology successfully put the silk making gene of a spider into a goat. When milked, the goat produces spider silk.
4XlXo TIL that St Chad of Mercia is jocularly suggested to be the patron saint of botched election due to the confused nature of his appointment as saint and the relation to the word chad which is the small fragment of paper left when holes are made in paper
7rk4p TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
0dOoN TIL Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were first cousins. Albert's father and Victoria's mother were brother and sister.
Rjaj TIL that in Ontario, Canada there is a law stating saying “sorry” is not an admissions of guilt.