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0we4R TIL in 1999 Professor Bill Ditto made a simple calculator using the neurons taken out of leeches; word's first biological computer. It was aptly named the "leech-ulator".
oBOM8 TIL since an Ottoman sultan was killed in Kosovo in 1389, the same few Turkish families have maintained the battlefield tomb of his internal organs. Every generation in the current line - last name "Türbedar" (tomb caretaker) - has lived there since 1854, but it will soon end with a Bosnian widow
YplaA TIL Splooting is a pose squirrels do in order to cool down by pressing their tummy onto a cool surface
N795e TIL Mel Gibson is the 4th richest Hollywood actor in the world, despite his starring films failing in the box office for the better part of the last 15 years. This is due to the continued success of his directorial efforts (Passion of the Christ, Hacksaw Ridge, Apocalypto, Braveheart)
4XpD5 TIL that 90% of the plastic in the oceans come from just 10 rivers. 8 are in Asia and 2 are in Africa.There are the Yangtze, Indus, Yellow, Hai He, Ganges, Pearl, Amur and Mekong in Asia and the Nile and the Niger in Africa