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TIL Colorado researchers have 3D printed miniature Lego-style bone bricks that can heal broken bones. The blocks, which are the size of a flea, help regrowth and can be interlocked like toy bricks. They hope to scale the technology and use it to supply laboratory-made organs for human transplant.

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nW8MG TIL about Zamor, a child who was kidnapped by British slave traders and eventually sold to King Louis XV, who gifted him to a mistress. He would later turn against her during the French Revolution, before being imprisoned himself as an accomplice.
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