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TIL: Human's only using 10 percent of their brain is a myth. Humans actually use nearly every part of their brain.

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OoyN6 TIL The ampersand (&) was the 27th letter of the alphabet as a ligature of the letters 'e' and 't' to form the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. So the alphabet would go X,Y,Z and And. So to distinguish it from the rest, children started to say 'and per say and' which later evolved into 'ampersand'.
mZVv TIL For over a 150 years, pitbulls were known as “Nanny dogs” for keeping childrens safe and beeing a tolerant breed (Article’s part 1 and 2 can be found at the end of the article)
rmKy TIL the existence of MI6, the agency with which James Bond works, wasn’t officially acknowledged by the British government until 1994
E18Qo TIL that due to internet rumors and some media articles, some folks eat fruit/veggie UPC codes intentionally. Mistaking the idea that “It’s ok to accidentally consume a sticker” for “the FDA regulates them and the stickers have nutritional value.”
d7m9 TIL that it is safe to eat the stickers that are on fruit, including the glue which is “food-grade”