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TIL that while abundant in the universe, Helium is a finite resource on Earth and cannot be manufactured. Its use in MRI’s means a shortage could seriously affect access to this life saving technology.

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6EZml TIL Researchers in Siberia found a perfectly-preserved 42,000-year-old baby horse buried under the permafrost. It was in such good condition that its blood was still in a liquid state, allowing scientists to extract it.
yQ8xp TIL there’s a 2 mile underground pipeline in Bruges to transfer beer from brewery to bottling plant.
PYQje TIL that in 1905, 13 year old Ben Sands discovered an underground lake in Tennessee
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
0rvj TIL Mithridates VI spent his whole life taking small doses of poison to build an immunity to it. When he was finally captured, he attempted to kill himself with poison but couldn’t because he was immune to it.