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TIL Unborn Babies Use Genes From Dad to “Remote-Control” Mothers for Extra Food

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6Qlw TIL Louis XIX was King of France for 20 minutes.
neRLG TIL 7% of all humans who have ever existed are alive right now
njJ9 TIL A Microsoft researcher has come up with a great algorithm to depixel pixelart.
rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.
aK6b TIL that Keurig K-Cups generate 10 times the solid waste that would be generated from a standard drip brewer and most of that waste isn’t recyclable. Co-founder John Sylvan said, “I feel bad sometimes that I ever did it.”