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TIL researchers printed out a beating mouse heart using a modified printer with cells in the ink cartridge.

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EgPKo TIL in 2011, Disneyland Paris was Europe's top tourist destination, with almost double the number of visitors to the Louvre museum in France and almost ten million more visitors than the Eiffel Tower in Paris
4weo TIL the tradition for standing during the hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah started because King George II stood during it at the first performance in England, and then everyone else had to stand up, and no one knows why George stood up.
p8ZN4 TIL that Porgs were included in Star Wars because they had no way of getting rid of all the puffins when they were filming in Ireland
d86Vd TIL of Dr Randy Lovelace II, a Lt. Col. in the US Army Air Corps who worked on oxygen systems for high altitude jumps. In 1943 he volunteered to test his mask and jumped from a B17 at 40,000ft. The force of that deceleration knocked him out. tore his gloves off and frostbit his hand but he survived.
bQ97 TIL that British Members of Parliament are not allowed to resign, instead they have to be appointed in the nominal position of ‘Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds’ which disqualifies them from holding office.