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TIL Scientists at UCLA noticed that “time and time again” people suffered their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. They did brain scans after patients ate probiotics, and found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected connectivity of the brain.

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X6pX TIL Neil deGrasse Tyson met his current wife during a physics course while studying at the University of Texas. They later married in 1988 and named their first child, Miranda, after the smallest of Uranus’ five major moons.
8VaV TIL of Krishna’s butterball. A giant 250 ton boulder situated in southern India, that’s remained stationary on a slippery slope for at least 1300 years, defying an attempt move it using 7 elephants and even natural disasters like tsunami’s and typhoons.
QAvp TIL that the gyros, shawarma, tacos al pastor, and doner kebab can all be traced back to one man: Hadji Iskender
MeVaA TIL The Taiping Rebellion was started by a guy in China who thought he was the brother of Jesus Christ, killing over 20-30 million people
R7xo7 TIL: In 2017 Dr. Thatcher Cardon received $15,000 from NASA for winning the Space Poop Challenge. His prototype removes the waste from the space suit completely so astronauts don't need to take off their notoriously heavy, cumbersome, and uncomfortable space suits before going to the toilet