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TIL that 15 year old John Gurdon’s teacher wrote that teaching him biology would be “a sheer waste of time, both on his part and of those who would have to teach him.” In 2012 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in developmental biology.

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PYy5Z TIL a Guatemalan boy saw soldiers come into his village and murder his parents along with the rest of the village, was adopted and raised in an abusive household by one of the men who massacred the villagers, and later gave testimony that sent the killer to prison with a 6,000 year sentence
vLr7 TIL the dark region on the north pole of Pluto’s moon, Charon, is called Mordor.
9Ybn6 TIL in 1941 the grandmother of Martin Luther King fell down and became unresponsive. MLK blamed himself and attempting suicide by jumping from a second story window
ADD8d Turkey got your tongue?
JBgk TIL that women seeking an abortion in Texas are required to view a sonogram, as well as hear a description and the heartbeat of the fetus 24 hours before they can legally decide to have the procedure