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TIL that each one has a unique cardiac signature that can be used as biometrics similar to fingerprinting and retina scan

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JmRQ TIL of a material so black the human eye can’t decipher what it’s seeing.
Vm4 TIL That James Watson, the person who discovered the double-helix model of DNA, In an interview said “ There was a natural desire that all human beings should be equal, but "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”
Y7P77 TIL about Ramon Berenguer IV who was born in 1198. He and his wife Beatrice had four daughters. They became the Queens of France, England, Sicily and The Holy Roman Empire. The couple were also huge supporters of troubadours.
RA8a TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
16wRO TIL there was another Lady Diana Spencer (nicknamed "dear little Di") in the 18th century, who was also supposed to marry Prince of Wales at the time, but instead ended up marrying another man (Duke of Bedford) and died of tuberculosis at the age of 25 following a miscarriage