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Today I learned Three Stooges made a hairspray commercial!

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xpK0 TIL that melittin, a toxin found in bee venom, physically destroys the HIV virus while leaving body cells unharmed.
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JJM1 TIL: 2,000-year-old seeds were discovered in 1963 inside an ancient jar in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted.
DVBV TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
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