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TIL It is illegal in Taiwan for children under two years old to use a smartphone or watch TV

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0AvN TIL NASA wants to make Interstellar travel possible within the next 100 years.
ADvra TIL of Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who kept a vast collection of handwritten notes on top secret files. When he defected to British Intelligence in 1992, he brought six trunks of notes with him that exposed most KGB activities in the West during the Cold War
4kP8R TIL that Michael Jackson didn’t celebrate his first Christmas until he was 35 years old
K9Vw TIL that discredited South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed to have extracted stem cells from cloned human embryos was, unbeknownst to himself at the time, actually the first to produce human embryos via parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction.
Y774A TIL Simon Wells, the great-grandson of science-fiction author H. G. Wells, co-directed An American Tail: Fievel Goes West