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TIL gut bacteria and the nervous system communicate with neurotransmitters

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DM6j TIL Emily, a three-year-old cow, escaped from a slaughterhouse in 1995 and wandered the backyards and woods of Boston’s suburbs for 40 days. She ran with herds of deer and was given help from residents to evade capture. She was eventually purchased by a “Peace Abbey” on Christmas Eve.
E15d0 TIL that UFC fighters actually weigh much more in their daily lives than in the weight classes they compete in. They use extreme weight manipulation to lose 15-20 lbs. in 5 days before the weigh in, and then gain all that weight back in the 24 hrs before the fight. Including GSP and Silva.
VMbjZ TIL Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer solves ancient math problem in prison. Taught himself higher math and solved the age-old math puzzle of number theory involving so-called continued fractions over which Euclid has already racked his brains. He then published the journal in January 2020.
NQL6 TIL The voice actor of Boo in Monsters, Inc. was so young, it was difficult to get her to stand in the recording studio. The solution: they followed her around with a microphone.
ZpV6p TIL of the hexamyriapentachiliapentahectatriacontaheptagon, a polygon with 65,537 sides.