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

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rRe9d TIL that Danish Physicist Lene Hau lead a team in 2001 that was the first to completely stop a beam of light in its tracks. Later experiments included turning light into matter, and then matter back into light.
xVYrD TIL that the gorilla, our close ape relative, has a bite force of 1,000 pound-force that can snap any bone in the human skeleton (900 pound-force to break a femur). In comparison, the bite force of a human being is at a mere 296 pound-force.
a7oN TIL that Kaley Cuoco was once a nationally ranked amateur tennis player. She started at the age of 3 and gave it up at 16.
Vo6m TIL: Scientists wired two rats’ brains together and the result was mutual problem solving: “We created a new central nervous system made of two brains.”
m7QM TIL that East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader.