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TIL that scientists were able to use a spinach leaf as scaffolding to build a mini working human heart.

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9wlED TIL: In the Palace of Westminster, the UK's parliamentary building, there are nearly 30 different bars. In the 1980s, an estimated 10 per cent of MPs were alcoholics.
9gBp TIL Before the introduction of the catacombs, there was once a cemetery so overflowing with bodies in central Paris they made soap with the fat of the corpses and had houses with bones protruding from the rooftops of adjacent houses.
GANjJ TIL that before the 13th amendment banned slavery, an earlier 13th amendment passed congress and was signed by Buchanan saying the government could not interfere with a state's right to have slavery. The Civil War breaking out saved it from going to the people to be ratified.
ADj57 TIL all seagulls have a set of glands above the eyes that filter out the salt ions from their bloodstream, allowing them to drink saltwater.
VMVKm TIL German biologist Stefan Lanka, who believed that measles was a "psychosomatic illness", announced that he would pay 100,000 Euros to anyone who could prove that measles was a virus. German doctor David Barden proved him wrong and Lanka was ordered by the court to pay the money as promised.