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TIL Sealand is a micronation that was founded on a abandoned sea fort

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wdO7 TIL fecal transplant is an increasingly popular treatment of severe bacterial infections. Disease-free feces from a donor is infused and the bacteria defeats the infection. It is being explored as a treatment for a variety of conditions, including obesity, M.S., diabetes, and Parkinson’s disease.
dZAB TIL: Ryan Holle - Sentenced to life in prison for loaning his car to a friend who he thought was getting them fast food. Let’s help him become a free man again!
VMR0Q TIL that slugs were used during World War 1 as a method to detect mustard gas well before humans could. The slugs would visibly indicate their discomfort giving soldiers in the trenches time to put on their gas masks.
lWPB TIL that scientists at UC Berkeley were able to take atomic-scale pictures of a molecule before and after a chemical reaction. The images looked EXACTLY like the classic molecular structure diagrams shown in text books.
1anjr TIL of longplayer, a one thousand year long musical composition that is been playing since 31st of December 1999 and will continue till 2999.