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TIL scientists, via brain scanning, communicated with a man in coma who told them he was not in pain.

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5Yv1R TIL in 1886, the Germans sent a mission to Chile to help train and modernise the Chilean army. As a result of the Germans overhaul of their army, the ceremonial uniforms, weapons and marching songs are all German or German based, and military parades look like a step into Germany 150 years ago.
6EXaW TIL that Jack Ma, founder of Aibababa, would bike 70minutes from his home to an International Hotel when he as 13. He did this to give free tours to tourist and converse with them, in an attempt to improve his English. He did this for nine years
6E5jJ TIL Britney Spears, 37, has been in a conservatorship since 2008 and can’t legally vote, get married, or drive a car without permission from her guardian.
yQ0ka TIL that it's safer than ever to be a cop and the number of line‐of‐duty deaths has declined dramatically over the last five decades.
wm6J TIL that foxes were domesticated in the USSR and Russia using a 45 year breeding process