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TIL: Most countries don’t actually rely on credit scores

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GrLj TIL that cab drivers in London have much larger hippocampi, which is the brain region responsible for the formation of new memories, than other people.
R5k16 TIL: In very rare cases, certain Bottlenose dolphins are born with remains of legs.
1aDrV TIL Cruentation, the understanding that dead bodies would bleed in the presence of their murderer, was a common belief in the Middle Ages.
ANaGB TIL that before Nirvana was formed, Kurt Cobain led a band called "Fecal Matter"