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TIL that science has a need for more postmortem brains to study. Being an organ donor does not include the brain, so you must sign up separately in order to donate your brain for research.

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m1vVP TIL that 1816 is known as the “Year Without a Summer,” due to the eruption of Mount Tambora, the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history.
GgQ1 TIL Vanna White makes $4 million per year for flipping letters on Wheel Of Fortune.
ZNyQ TIL programmers for Atari in the late 70s went to the CEO of the company asking for royalties and their names be included on the boxes, when he turned them down they went and formed their own company – Activision
6EP5m TIL Coco Chanel made sun bathing fashionable. Historically exposure to the sun had been the mark of laborers and a milky skin used to be a sure sign of aristocracy. Chanel took in the sun, making suntans not only acceptable, but a symbol denoting a life of privilege and leisure.
grM4A TIL the Mediterranean orchid Ophrys that employs sexual deceit to get pollination done by a species of bee by evolving one of its petal to bear resemblance to the female of the bee in size colour & markings thus attracting the male bee into pseudocopulation, pollinating the flowers in the process