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TIL that it's possible to rejuvenate cells. Scientists were able to restore vision in old mice with this technic.

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6EDr7 TIL that during "Hell Week", a five and a half day stretch during the training/application phase, US Navy SEAL candidates sleep only a total of four total hours during the week, run more than 200 miles and do physical training for more than 20 hours a day.
oBg1L TIL the 3.5 mm Headphone Jack was patented in 1895. It was used to connect phone lines in 19th century switchboards.
9w0y6 TIL: Mick Jackson, director of kooky ‘90s Steve Martin romcom, ‘LA Story’, is the same guy who directed the notoriously trauma-inducing British TV movie about nuclear apocalypse, ‘Threads’. These two films could not be more different if they tried.
oBO8 TIL In 2001 Kim ‘Dotcom’ purchased €375,000 of shares of a nearly bankrupt company, announced he would invest €50 million in the company, and caused the share value to jump nearly 300% . He sold his shares a few days later for €1,568,000. He’d never had the money available to invest.
vPL5j TIL that the voice of Linda from 'Bob's Burgers' is the voice actor's mocking of his mother