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TIL Split-Brain Experiments by Sperry and Gazzaniga showed in patients with severed corpus callosums (to treat severe epilepsy), the two hemispheres were unable to communicate. The experiment showed consciousness can “split” into two separate streams within the same person.

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AoPg TIL Ethel Merman’s last film appearance was “Airplane!,” where she played a man who thought he was Ethel Merman.
4kdlb TIL that thousands of women have had and are having unconsensual pelvic exams performed on them while under anesthesia, and that it’s still legal in over half of the U.S.
a8kK0 TIL: Bamboo will flower and seed every 40-120 years then die off. Because huge areas of bamboo are the same plant, this causes widespread death of bamboo forests, followed by major rat infestations and then famine in parts of the world. It is not known why this happens.
rNdX1 TIL there is no evidence that Viking had horned helmets. Their depiction with horned helmets is a fallacy that began in the 1870s.
yQa1a TIL contemporaries of President Abraham Lincoln compared his high-pitched voice to a falsetto.