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TIL the CIA has a venture capital fund it uses to identify and fund various technologies with "national security" interest

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7GDO TIL Sperm were first observed in 1677, and were described as “Animalcules”, each containing a miniature yet fully formed human. This came into question when it was pointed out that meant each sperm itself carried sperm.
evVD TIL Jeanne Calment, a French supercentenarian, met Vincent Van Gogh and watched the Eiffel Tower constructed.
R7BWl TIL 9 of the 10 most common birthdays in the world are in September, with conception happening in the third or fourth week of December.
v1ZE4 TIL that people can die from simply giving up on life. Senior research John Leach said “give-up-itis” can kill in just three weeks without help.
xVV4D TIL before Sony stopped supporting OtherOS, the PS3 was such an effective Linux system, institutions like University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Carolina State University & the U.S Armed Forces used PS3 clusters making an affordable high-performance computing system to create a supercomputer.