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TIL damage to your frontal lobe can lead to a condition called Witzelsucht: the urge to make puns and jokes at inappropriate times.

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9Ya7r TIL 52-foot-tall 'megaripples' from dinosaur-killing asteroid are hiding under Louisiana
YNnZ TIL that research shows that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiveness between real drugs and placebos has narrowed and even more so in the US than anywhere else
84aL TIL Douglas Bader was a legless flying ace (RAF) in WW2 . His success was partly because of his having no legs; pilots pulling high “g-forces” in combat often “blacked out” as the flow of blood from the brain to other body parts, usually the legs. As he had no legs he could remain conscious longer.
dD7Lr TIL while bat sleeps head down, they still flip around, head up to pee.
KYXdB TIL that Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a guy in the middle of a Green Day concert after he saw him roughing up a young girl. He stopped the show and challenged him to a fight before jumping into the crowd.