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TIL scientists interested in aging joined the circulatory system of two mice together—one young, the other old—and studied the effects. The old mouse experienced reversed aging in muscle and in the brain. Researchers are keen to start clinical trials in humans.

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newEo TIL in 2021, Pocari Sweat (Japanese energy drink) will be the first beverage to land on the moon
R7mGl TIL that by the time James Cameron made Titanic in 1997, there had already been over a dozen films covering the disaster
M7O60 TIL that austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was a pharmacist and served as a medical officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. In the battle of Gródek (September 1914), he had to take care of 90 severely wounded soldiers all by himself for two days. Trakl overdosed on cocaine in November 1914.
7xar TIL the human body produces trace amounts of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) which has been called “The most powerful hallucinogen known to man and science.”
Y7D87 TIL: On July 1, 1942 the American submarine Sturgeon sank the Montevideo Maru that was transporting 1080 prisoners and civilians who were captured after the fall of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea.