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TIL That your brain doesn’t stop developing at the previously thought age 21-24 and new studies show it may even keep developing until age 40

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XEbpR TIL of Razzle Dazzle. A carnival game that is designed to make the player believe he is ALMOST winning. But mathematically it actually is near impossible to win despite being very very few points from winning.
oBYYA TIL in 1999 that Royal Caribbean was accused of dumping oil and was caught providing falsified documents about it to the US Coast Guard. They then argued they were outside US jurisdiction since they were incorporated in Liberia (their HQ was/is in Miami)
yb18 TIL the stormtroopers in Star Wars are left-handed
1Qlr TIL in 10th century lived Syrian poet who was attacking and rejecting Islamic (or any other religion) claims and could freely express his opinions in Arabic lands without fear of his life. In 2013, almost a thousand years after his death, a Jihadist group beheaded his statue
W7yPd TIL, that in 2014 the U.S. for-profit company Pearson took control of the high school GED afterwards, there was a 90 percent drop-off in pass rates.