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TIL that the jellyfish species Turritopsis Dohrnii can revert to its juvenile form after reaching maturity, effectively allowing it to restart its life cycle.

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ADrAo TIL of the feedback sandwich, the recommended method for managers to give negative feedback, by sandwiching the negative remark between two positive ones
XEyJ8 TIL that Frederick Banting, the discoverer of Insulin, sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1, cause he believed that his discover "belongs to the world".
QNag6 TIL the Water integrator in the USSR, invented in 1936, used water levels in various chambers to solve inhomogeneous differential equations
rRdOo TIL The first man to climb Nanga Parbat (9th tallest mountain in the world) pushed through the final 4300 feet alone by taking a high dose of amphetamines and drinking tea brewed from coca leaves. He then stood on a ledge overnight before heading down.
P8EV TIL that b/c most prevailing winds in the Northern Hemisphere blow west to east, east-sides of cities during the Industrial Revolution would often be inundated with polluted-air from factory smoke. This created in many cities the still-present divide of affluent ‘west-sides’ and poor 'east-sides’.