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TIL - Worms regrow their decapitated heads, along with the memories inside

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xvQg TIL in 1976 a film crew went to the haunted house in a California amusement park to shoot footage for a popular tv show. They discovered a hanging body that they thought was a mannequin… turns out it was a real person who had been dead and circulating in various carnivals for over sixty years
gEKL TIL Henry Ford once balked at paying $10,000 to General Electric for work done troubleshooting a generator, and asked for an itemized bill. The engineer who performed the work, Charles Steinmetz, sent this: “Making chalk mark on generator, $1. Knowing where to make mark, $9,999.” Ford paid the bill.
7GZx TIL the brain registers the anticipation of math—but crucially, not math itself as physical pain.
MewZ8 TIL that the pin tumbler lock mechanism, most commonly used in locks, invented by Linus Yale became a winning invention in the mid 19th century.
xVGe0 TIL India banned jury trials after a Naval officer murdered his wife’s lover and a combination of sympathy for the wronged husband and a concerted media campaign to paint him as such resulted in the jury acquitting him.