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TIL DNA can be traced back 17000 Years

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awnAo TIL the first person ever to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive was Annie Taylor on October 24, 1901. She hoped her feat would bring her fame and fortune but she died in poverty.
G9gE TIL that over a period of 55 years Virginia forced the sterilization of thousands of people; it was so successful the nazis modeled their programs after it, and used it as a defense in the Nuremburg trials
4XD55 TIL for his PhD thesis, Ilya Bobvroskiy took a helicopter to a remote Russian bear infested ravine, rappelled down. Found fossils from the edicarian, & analysed cholesterol preserved in the ancient rocks. Science named his work amongst the top 10 breakthroughs of 2018.
XEBL6 TIL It took Leonard Cohen 5 years to write 'Hallelujah'
rRYox TIL: After WWII, despite signing an agreement to share nuclear information with the UK in exchange for their scientist's help, the US lost the physical copy of the agreement, questioned its authenticity when a copy was sent, and denied British scientists access to their own papers.