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TIL your brain grows in physical size when memorizing large amounts of data.

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XEd0P TIL of baby boxes - heated boxes in south Seoul for parents to anonymously leave their abandoned new-born children inside. Most who abandon their babies are mothers who are unwed or victims of sexual violence. These baby boxes have saved thousands of abandoned babies since 2009.
NXrp1 TIL that Barbara and Kenneth Handler, the children whom Barbie and Ken were named after, never played with their namesake dolls in their lives, as neither them nor their children ever liked them
4XnvR TIL the current water speed record of 318mph (511.1kph) was set by an Australian in 1977 and remains unbroken to this day. Two attempt have been made to break this record in the past 40 years and both resulted in the deaths of their operators.
Orl6 TIL that Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star trek, flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Also,Roddenberry was one of the first humans to have his ashes carried into earth orbit.
xVGG7 TIL after WWII ended, Jewish people were forced to live for months in their concentration camps, in their camp uniforms and poorly insulated buildings, leading a US representative to conclude: "We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them except that we do not exterminate them."