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TIL Yao Ming was a chemically engineered propaganda experiment that went well.

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WkEvd TIL Bryan Cranston, at the age of 12, encountered a young Charles Manson while riding horses with his teenage cousin. This happened about a year before Manson committed the Tate-LaBianca murders.
OoMa4 TIL that your brain alone accounts for 20-25% of your daily metabolic rate/oxygen consumption due to how large it is
VM1WZ TIL that there are tens of giant pyramid hills in the province of Shaanxi, China and they are what you expect to be: they were built for the same reason as the Great Pyramids of Egypt: as a final resting place for ancient kings
N7BvN TIL Since 2017, when Waymo, began testing self-driving vans in Chandler, Arizona, Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing them. People have thrown rocks at Waymos, slashed a tire, chased them, tried to run them off the road and aimed a gun at one of them
Rw9 TIL scientists have found a way to make an invisibility cloak, which led to “time cloaks,” that can make entire events invisible.