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TIL Aristotle believed that the brain was just a minor organ for cooling the blood and heart and a place for the spirit to reside.

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mx74p TIL of Littlewood’s Law of Miracles, which defines a miracle as a hugely-improbable, 1-in-a-million event. Assuming there are roughly eight hours per day where humans are alert, and we experience an “event” once per second, on average we should expect to experience a miracle about once per month.
9YLwr TIL John Jameson, founder of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey, was actually Scottish.
xorB TIL the word ‘bender’ is british slang for 'gay’ and 'The Last Airbender’ became an unintentional comedy when screened in the UK
9YBBm TIL that the way my mom cooks onions is called caramelizing??? Like w h a t there’s a word for that??
P1lKw TIL that although the Everest is the mountain with the most dead mountaineers, it isn't considered as deadly as other mountains, with a higher fatality rate