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Today I learned organisms can have top-down control over their own genome.

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mbyO TIL - Reading silently didn’t happen until the dark ages, when monks took a vow of silence. Before that, reading was done aloud, which is why the Romans had no punctuation and instead, chanted words to rhythms. Reading silently uses an entirely different part of the brain.
BgQjk TIL that the cartoons Doug, PB&J Otter and Pinky Dinky Doo were all made by the same person
rRm81 TIL Before he became a founding father of the United States, Benjamin Franklin established one of America’s first volunteer fire departments.
kODeg TIL when the Miami Marlins built their new stadium, they consulted NASA to make sure no one could hit a home run more than 500 feet. Aaron Judge hit one 513 feet at the Home Run Derby in 2017.
KYv5a TIL World War I trenches were constructed of sandbags, planks of wood, plaited wicker, tangled barbed wire, or even just mud. The trench systems on the Western Front were about 475 miles long, extending from the English Channel to the Swiss Alps, though not in a continuous line.