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TIL that it is possible to donate spare processing power on your computer to help the CERN’s LHC process data.

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xVAXb TIL up until 1857, the Mexican Peso was legal tender in the United States.
8rv4 TIL Comanche Indians would torture captured settlers by cutting off their genitals, stuffing them in their mouths, sewing their lips together, then staking them over a nest of red ants until dead - Comanche women often orchestrated the torture.
VdpQ TIL that the shape of a person’s corpus callosum reflects their mental rather than physical sex (i.e. someone with male genitalia at birth who identifies as female will have a female shaped corpus callosum)
vkP4 TIL at least six Americans have been accidentally shot by dogs in the past five years, including by a dog named “Trigger”.
9Y6L6 TIL that there is a battery-powered bell that was set up in 1840 and has run nearly continuously ever since. It holds the Guinness World Record as "the world's most durable battery delivering ceaseless tintinnabulation (a ringing or tinkling sound).