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TIL that physicist and biologist, Luigi Galvani’s work on Bioelectricity gave Mary Shelley inspiration for Frankenstein.

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5VLpr TIL that Saturn's moon Titan is the only known object in the universe aside from Earth to have stable bodies of liquid. There are lakes, seas, and rivers of hydrocarbons across the surface. Its thick atmosphere has been compared to the hypothesized atmosphere of early Earth.
9wrKM TIL that 1 out of 12 men have color blindness
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