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TIL: boss baby is a book adaptation

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JYOGk TIL an emordnilap (palindrome spelt backwards) is a word that can be read differently in reverse. ex. reward/drawer
GAmB7 TIL that Svante Pääbo mapped the DNA of Neanderthals and won the Nobel price. During his attempts, the first DNA sequences obtained came from himself. This helped him understand that contamination was a major problem and allowed him to refine the process and succeed
6EjvY TIL That cryonic preservation (freezing a corpse hoping that it can be revived in the future) is prohibited in France and British Columbia, Canada. In France, cryonics is not a legal mode of body disposal, and in BC, sale of arrangements for cryonic preservation has been prohibited since 2015.
gMwdL TIL that after the Apollo 11 moonwalk, NASA was concerned about the volatility and possible fire or explosion of lunar dust after the LM was filled with oxygen. Armstrong and Aldwin spread out a sample in the LM before repressurizing and watched to see if it caught fire or smoldered. It did not.
R7Er1 TIL while "instant mashed potatoes" tend to be associated with modern and instant foods, the process of drying and grinding starchy vegetables for storage goes back to ancient times. The Incas made a freeze-dried potato food called chuño and Japanese Ainu cuisine also uses ground and dried potatoes.