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TIL that nerves can be grafted and spliced like wires, fixing damage to muscle control or pain

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5N19 TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting and mathematical correlation. He also suggested that principles of animal breeding could be applied to humans, coined the word ‘eugenics’, and came up with the 'nature vs nurture’ idea.
dop9 TIL The Tomb of the Unknowns has been continuously guarded without interruption since 1937. There are wear marks in the marble from the sentinels footsteps
B6mW TIL a little old lady (Dorothea Puente) ran a halfway house in Sacramento for the down and out. She murdered 7 of the residents and buried them in the front yard.
Y7RyB TIL In 1993, [Rolling Stones’ Bill ]Wyman's son Stephen Wyman married Patsy Smith, the 46-year-old mother of Bill's ex-wife Mandy Smith. …Therefore, Bill became the father-in-law of his ex-mother-in-law as well as the stepgrandfather of his former wife.
VL1Z TIL SETI is the only organization in the world that publicly has a protocol set in place in the event a signal is received from extraterrestrial life.