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TIL the heart has its own mini "brain" that can send information and emotions to the main brain.

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vPLE4 TIL Robots have been around since 1948, with the first robot actually being a complex application of concepts from the 4th century
dOpB TIL that Stephen Fry was expelled from two schools and was imprisoned for three months for credit-card fraud. After studying for the entrance test, however, Fry was admitted to Cambridge University, where he met Emma Thompson and his future collaborator Hugh Laurie.
gr0n8 TIL bees can recognize human faces. Despite their tiny brains, bees can remember and recognize human faces using a similar process to humans, which helps them identify friends and foes.
0wOWR TIL there are around 35,000 archaeological sites in Israel, a country the size of New Jersey
a709 TIL that in 1952 while in an institution Charles Manson held a razor to another boy’s throat while he sodomized him before being released on parole in 1954.