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TIL that radiation-blocking proteins taken from “water bear” DNA have been incorporated into human cells which boosted the protection of human DNA against damage from x-rays by 40%.

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VKxZ TIL Jim Henson came up with the 25 page story line for “The Dark Crystal” while snowed in at an airport hotel. He also believed it was unhealthy for children to never be afraid.
DQvJr TIL after suffering a brutal attack in 2020, Wanda Palmer woke up from a two-year coma in 2022 and identified her brother, Daniel, as the one who attacked and nearly killed her. He was charged with attempted murder, but died in a hospital after being in jail for five days.
R5Ly7 TIL That Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Tom Hanks have colonoscopy parties together
x67Lw TIL that the Vietnam draft lottery ended up not being truly random because the guy didn't mix the balls in the urn sufficiently
M7Nv7 TIL the curved surface of the habitat at the end of the movie Interstellar i.e. Cooper station is based on O'Neill cylinders in which two cylinders each 20miles long and 5miles in diameter rotate about their longitudinal axis thus providing centrifugal force serving as gravity.