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TIL In the middle ages they tortured lousy musicians

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P18bO TIL about Tulare Lake, once the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, covering an area from Fresno to Bakersfield at its maximum size. It steadily shrunk from the mid 1800s onward before eventually vanishing due to water diversion for crops. It occasionally reemerges in flood years.
6mWJ TIL that when our brains are tired, they are capable of thinking more creatively than when they are not tired.
KYE54 Today I learned about the 4 astronomer nuns who helped map nearly 500,000 stars in the late 1800s and early part of the 20th century. Emilia Ponzoni, Regina Colombo, Concetta Finardi and Luigia Panceri.
grMe8 TIL that uterus transplantations are possible. For instance, in 2019 two births took place in Germany after a successful transplantation. The receiving women suffered from a syndrome called Müllerian agenesis and were born without a vaginal tract.
eprBJ TIL in the 1960s, science fiction author Stanisław Lem came up with several terms for technologies like "phantomatics" for virtual reality, "molectronics" for molecular nanotechnology, "cerebromatics" for cognitive enhancement or "intelectronics" for artificial intelligence.