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TIL DNA can be traced back 17000 Years

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DQ9MP TIL about "Cocaine Bear," a real black bear that accidentally consumed a duffel bag full of cocaine in 1985. The drugs were dropped from a plane by a drug smuggler, Andrew Thornton, who later died during a botched parachute jump. The bear ingested over 75 pounds of cocaine and died almost instantly
v1WD7 TIL the turning point that pushed Boston to dig under its streets and open America’s first subway on September 1, 1897, was Frank Sprague’s invention, the Dynamo Electric Machine.
jyQR TIL the small cylindrical bulge at the end of laptop charger is an electrical device that helps to isolate the laptop from electromagnetic noise.
EX8d TIL U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not grow up speaking English. Instead, he spoke a creole language known as Gullah that began among coastal slave communities. Thomas has said the reason he rarely speaks publicly is because he does not want any traces of it to come out in his speech
wZbM TIL that Casa Bonita is a real restaurant in Denver