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TIL that your brain can actually trick you into thinking you’re hungry when you’re just dehydrated.

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VMOmG TIL of Philippa Fawcett, an English mathematician and the first woman to have topped the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, but who despite scoring 13% higher than the second top scorer did not receive the honorary title of Senior Wrangler.
rNn1o TIL about the Red Mirage vs. the Blue Shift on election day
rRmlo TIL a secret vault was discovered in a long-abandoned maternity home run by nuns... it contained the remains of 800+ toddlers
kJZl4 TIL In year 1240 BC, under the Reign of Ramses II, a valid reason to get out of work was brewing beer, your daughter bleeding, or having drinks with a colleague.
Me1pb TIL Tesseract is the name of a real geometrical concept - it is a cube in 4-dimensional space. It is a 4D shape whose every face is a cube. Just like a cube can be unfolded into 6 squares in 2D space, a tesseract can be unfolded into 8 cubes in 3D space.