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TIL that the left and right hemispheres of the brain must work together to understand puns; the left processes the linguistics, and the right analyses the punchline's double meaning

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OyoR TIL in the 50’s, there were so many Congressional hearings on Communists and homosexuals infiltrating the government that one congressman said: “I do not know what homosexuals are, but I never saw anybody get as much free advertising in the Congress of the United States in all my life.”
xVOMo TIL that the handrail around the turret in some early WW2 tanks is an antenna. The presence of a handrail antenna would reveal to the enemy that the tank is a command tank, which made it a primary target in the combat. Because of this, it was eventually replaced with a whip antenna.
Y7R5d TIL that 47% of all internet traffic came from bots in 2022
yQrY8 TIL Tigers need to be in an environment that mimics nature or they exhibit unnatural stress
QNL1k TIL human post-reproductive longevity is also an extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait