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TIL The human league: what separates us from other animals?

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pGZ8 TIL that the bluetooth symbol is a bind rune made from the runes bjarkan and hagall
X0jLD TIL there is a copy of the Statue of Liberty in England made from left over copper from the original
kJQBe TIL Krystyna Chiger survived the Holocaust by hiding in Lviv’s sewers with her family. While there, her grandmother knit her a green woolen sweater to keep her warm, now displayed at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. They were helped by Leopold Socha, a Polish Catholic sewer worker.
ANVRB TIL Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke holds the lunar high jump record at 2 ft 8 in (0.81 m). He landed backwards on his life support pack, risking death if it had broken.
69Ynm TIL: That during World War II, the mathematician Oswald T. Avery discovered that DNA, not protein, carries genetic information. His work was initially ignored by the scientific community, but it later paved the way for the discovery of the DNA double helix.