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TIL people With Fregoli delusion think everyone they meet is the same person in disguise

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69e48 TIL that the Irving Family is the single largest landowner in Maine with 1,267,792 million acres owned, and they've also planted more than 1 billion trees across the United States and Canada
Rd11 TIL The CBS radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” did not actually cause mass hysteria or panic
9j9X TIL in 1851, we had measuring tools with a precision of one millionth of an inch.
J1p71 TIL after losing her position in her university's anatomy department in 1938, Rita Levi-Montalcini set up a laboratory in her bedroom and studied the growth of nerve fibers in chicken embryos. This work led to her discovery of nerve growth factor, for which she was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1986.
jNMAa TIL that some owls keep blind snakes as pets. They feed on parasitic larvae, and a study conducted by Baylor University scientists found that Eastern Screech-Owl chicks grew faster and healthier in nests kept parasite-free by these “domesticated blind snakes”.