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TIL that just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain

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WD0X TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
kOO55 TIL that in the 1920s, Joseph Stalin wanted to rebuild the Red Army by creating super-soldiers by "crossing humans with apes"
WNxX TIL that on August 7th 1994 in Oakville Washington, mysterious gelatinous blobs began falling from the sky that induced illness in a number of people. The blobs were analyzed by scientists and found to contain human white blood cells with no nuclei. The source of the blobs was never uncovered
4kmWR TIL about Moe Berg, a baseball player who learned 7 languages from Princeton and a law degree from Columbia. He worked as a spy in Europe during WW2, and was ordered to attend a lecture by Heisenberg and shoot him if he determined the Germans were close to the bomb. He determined that they were not.
4Yga TIL spiders can’t chew or swallow, so they inject poison into their prey which turns the insides of insect to a watery goop and spider just suck it up.