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TIL in 1999, the Georgia Institute of Technology created an organic computer out of leech neurons.

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nWK77 TIL Muhammad Ali released a comedy album in 1963 under his birth name titled "I Am the Greatest" and track 5 was "Round 5: Will the Real Sonny Liston Please Fall Down". The album is considered a precursor to hip hop music and the track is considered an early diss track.
kJEB TIL that at Treblinka death camp during WWII, the commander of the camp, Kurt Franz, frequently enjoyed kicking and killing babies arriving at the camp.
Z81DQ TIL After filming Child's Play, original Chucky animatronic was stripped and re-used as the Crypt Keeper
GYdQ5 TIL that during the Black Death, the physician to the Papacy recognized that bloodletting was ineffective, but he continued to prescribe bleeding for members of the Roman Curia, whom he disliked. He also claimed that all true cases of plague were caused by astrological factors, and were incurable
5Xb9 TIL that the Human Brain’s ability to store memories is equivalent to about 2.5 petabytes of binary data