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TIL that in 2004, scientists engineered goats whose milk could save more than 500,000 kids who die each year from diarrheal diseases — that's more than the number of deaths from AIDS, malaria, and measles combined — but the government has left it languishing in regulatory limbo.

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16kLO TIL: The Smurfs has been called "kiddie cocaine" for people growing up during the 1980s.
kOxd7 TIL I learned about RAS Syndrome (redundant acronym syndrome), which is when one or more words, in an acronym, are repeated. Such as, PIN Number, ATM Machine, or UPC Code.
lo7E1 TIL a father of five worked 23 years as a custodian for Boston College so all of his children could attend the university for free. They all graduated and together saved nearly $700,000 in tuition.
EggoX TiL of the existence of the "Prado" Mona Lisa, a copy of the famous work believed to have been painted by one of Da Vinci's students simultaneously as Da Vinci painted the original.
dDAvj TIL of Old Whitey, a saponified corpse floating about the engine room of the SS Kamloops sunk off Isle Royale, Lake Superior, in 1927. Unidentified to today, he follows divers around as they explore her wreck. Superior it's said never gives up her dead.