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TIL heavy metal band Mötley Crüe had an official Sega Genesis game.

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Z8KMv TIL that the Uncompahgre Ute Native American tribe made special ceremonial rattles filled with quartz that would emit flashes of light when shaken. This was an early example of triboluminescence.
oRprW TIL After Colonel Shaw was killed, Confederates buried him in a mass grave to insult his leadership of Black soldiers. When Union troops tried to recover his body, his father wrote, "We would not have his body removed from where it rests with his brave soldiers."
jN8xQ TIL that Anthropodermic Bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. Klaatu Barada Nikto.
ADNWa The human brain looks like a big, pinkish-gray, wrinkly walnut. There are so many folds in it that, if it could be unfolded, it could be a small tablecloth. Pinkish-gray might not match your decor, but it would be about the right size! This "tablecloth" is made up of the cerebral cortex and is the wrinkly outside layer of your brain. All those folds are responsible for abstract thought, language, and memory. Scientists believe the wrinkles exist as a way to increase the surface area of the cortex, allowing for increased brainpower in a smaller space. In this week’s Today I Learned, neuroscientist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Steve Ramirez shares some of his smarts on how your cortex is different from your pet hamster’s.
PYxvZ TIL in Waco Texas, 1916, 10,000 people watched the lynching of Jesse Washington (castrated, burned, and mutilated for 2+ hours) A photographer sold postcards of the event. Prominent citizens eventually persuaded photographer to stop selling them fearing the images would come to characterize the town