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TIL that a South Korean scientist has cloned 600 pet dogs for grieving owners. At $100,000 a pup. I mean pop.

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MZDa TIL 7 members of an isolated Indian tribe emerged from the Amazon and made contact with people in a village near the Peruvian border because “violent attacks” by outsiders had driven them from the forest. Later, details emerged that their elder relatives were massacred and their houses set on fire.
4NOw TIL that Google has a secret laboratory in California that is developing, among other things, a space elevator.
b9xBZ TIL that the brutal "Contest to behead 100 People" that some ww2 Japanese officers engaged in likely has to do with the Samurai practice of beheading high value targets for verification purposes & glory seeking.
rMbe TIL in 1927 PEZ dispensers, known as “regulars,” were similar in shape to a cigarette lighter and dispensed an adult breath mint marketed as an alternative to smoking.
695G7 TIL That the concrete used by the ancient romans has self healing properties, can last thousands of years and can make construction more environmentally sustainable