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TIL Venus has phases like the Moon

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l75e5 TIL Research has recently found neurons specifically dedicated to anticipating the sequence of melodic notes, separate from speech processing, showing music activates distinct neural mechanisms for predicting melody sequences.
QOO9 TIL there used to be an island called “Slut’s Bush” off the coast of Chatham, Massachusetts. The island sank under the ocean by the 1800s.
ZQYQ TIL Georgia is not named after Saint-George. The name rather derives from the Persian word for wolf, gurğ, and the region was referred to as Gorgan, or “land of the wolves”, for the heroic people who inhabited the territory. Its English name is a back-derivation of what was assumed to be George.
wRp8 TIL that the Vatican owns the building that houses Europe’s largest gay bathhouse. Cardinal Ivan Dias, who has called homosexuality “unnatural” and had argued that gays can be “cured”, lives in a 12-room apartment on the floor directly above the sauna.
x6gYk TIL the iron oxide in some colors of tattoo inks (black or brown) can cause burn-like injuries to the skin of people getting an MRI scan