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

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bk7Q TIL there was a custom in ancient Babylon compelling all women at least once in their lives to go to the temple of Aphrodite and have sex with a stranger.
Pjow TIL The term “red herring” comes from when escaped inmates would use smoked (or red) herring to throw off the bloodhounds.
m1RKx TIL Burlington, Ontario closes a section of King Road for annual migration of the Jefferson salamander.
QDNk TIL The game show Match Game was set to be cancelled and with nothing left to lose a question writer for the show started writing risque questions. As a result the ratings picked back up and the show was uncancelled.
J1QJ1 TIL only 40 dog breeds and varieties were known in 1873, whereas today, around 400 breeds are recognized by the Fédération Cynologique Internationale alone.