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615X TIL in 1940 a Soviet scientist brought a dead dog’s head back to “life” (It responded to external stimuli) and then brought a clinically dead (drained of blood for ten minutes) dog back to life. He received the Lenin prize.
E1wJo TIL Mike May, who became blind at age 3, got his sight back after more than 40 years but still had no idea how to see after his operation. Even though his eyes now worked perfectly, the visual part of his brain was so underdeveloped that it could not make any sense of the information coming in.
wx41 TIL Gays & lesbians are literally hunted like animals by packs of people in Russia, and the government condones this behavior
bwX4 TIL for almost 30 years there is a sign on the flat roof of Mark Gubin’s building in the flight path of Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. A sign painted in letters 6 feet tall tells people arriving by air: “WELCOME TO CLEVELAND.”
0wrNj TIL that Big Bird, from the American TV show Sesame Street, does not frequently appear in international versions of the show. Instead, he is replaced with other oversized birds that vary in color and size depending on which country they air in.