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TIL that in 2004, a South Korean scientist claimed to have cloned a human embryo and created stem cell lines from it, only for the entire thing to be exposed as an elaborate scientific fraud that rocked the global scientific community.

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OGEye TIL that in the Little Mermaid TV series Ariel basically executes a villain who's tied up and defenseless.
JYyg8 TIL actor George C. Scott declined his best actor nomination for "Patton" in 1970, and had the decency to let the Academy know that he would refuse the award if he won. He won anyway, and reportedly called the Oscars a "two-hour meat parade."
EgQwo TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the groin which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game after returning, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those in charge of the PA system to have Beltré's at-bat intro music be the opening march from The Nutcracker Suite.
4YZX TIL Since the dawn of civilization, roughly 12,000 B.C., to 2003 A.D., only 5 exabytes (5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data has been created. Now, with the rise of the Internet’s influence in our daily lives, we produce this amount of data every two days.
VBk8m TIL that elephants have breasts just like humans