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TIL the Berlin Wall is now gone for as long as it stood: 28 years

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VM6D8 TIL that between 1921 - 1976, Sweden sterilized up to 63,000 people. Teenagers as young as 15 were sterilized for inadequacies as trivial as shortsightedness or because they allegedly lacked judgment or had "no obvious concept of ethics".
YyNA TIL that while the bite of the Sydney Funnel Web can kill a human being in under two hours, dogs and cats are largely immune, and can survive up to 100 times the lethal dose.
VBK94 TIL That DNA Does Not Directly Code for Anatomy. The idea that biological forms are stored in DNA is an oversimplification challenged by developmental biology research showing the relationship between genotype and phenotype is far more complex, involving dynamic processes far beyond pure genetics.
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