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TIL that there is a company that is working towards creating artificial gills for humans

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BOer TIL the word ‘daisy’ comes from the Old English for 'day’s eye’, as a daisy opens its petals during the day and closes them again at night.
awwvA TIL that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that tomatoes are vegetables, despite the botanical fact that tomatoes are fruits
omDr TIL the price of the original iPod was $399, so expensive that people said iPod stood for “idiot’s Price Our Devices”.
rNWNd TIL Vinyl records outsell CDs for first time in 35 years
jnwa TIL Concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, British colonial officials created a bounty, only to discover secret cobra farms created to collect the bounty. When the officials shut down the program the farms released their snakes, meaning they had far more cobras than before they started.