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TIL biologists have revived 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from Antarctic ice

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QNJod TIL there's a food preserving technology called High Pressure Processing that puts food under 6000 bars of pressure and kills the bacteria by crushing it under the huge pressure, even at cold temperatures. It is widely used for store bought Guacamole.
J1rdl TIL an amateur historian in Rhode Island unearthed an Arabic coin believed to be part of the most profitable act of piracy in history - the 1695 capture of an Indian fleet and treasure by the English pirate Henry Every, estimated to by worth $400 million in today's money.
9wgXM TIL - of the Danbury Trashers, a short lived UHL hockey team started by garbage boss and mob associate James Galante who appointed his 17-y/o. son as President and GM. In their 2 seasons they set a UHL record for penalty minutes before Galante was arrested and the team folded.
J17jl TIL - The Onion submitted a 23-page Amicus Curiae brief to the US Supreme Court in 2022 for the case Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, in support of the protection of parody as free-speech. In the text, The Onion openly parodies the Court and says it is "staffed entirely by total Latin dorks".
LQbJv TIL Nazi Germany, Francoist Spain, and the Soviet Union repressed Esperanto usage. The Nazis banned it because its creator was a Jew. Spain repressed it because Catalan nationalists used it heavily. Stalin banned it because the Association of Soviet Esperantists was thought to be a spy organization.