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TIL fungi are 2.5 billion years old and are technically our ancestors

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NArE TIL Bill Nye went from an engineering position at Boeing to a job as a comedian before ultimately becoming the Science Guy
N7mO1 TIL in 1967 California State Senator Nicholas C. Petris proposed banning the use of internal combustion cars on California's roads by 1975.
R7kA6 TIL that most Koreans do not use deodorant due to a gene called ABCC11, which prevents sweat from producing odor.
B7we TIL in the 1950’s, a Texas white man named John Howard Griffin went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and traveled for six weeks on buses through the segregated south. After publishing his experiences, hostility and threats forced him to move to Mexico.
awpyZ TIL The Code of Hammurabi (1754 BC) has 282 laws enscribed on stone. It includes the concept of "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" - more than 500 years before the Torah.