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TIL Alysson Muotri wants Sentiomics: Sentiomics is the development and ‘education’ of human brain organoids to become sentient.

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Qye9 TIL that in the earliest versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl cannibalizes her own grandmother and gets eaten by the wolf after getting into bed with him.
GY787 TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart, a vetern of four wars. He survived seperate instances of being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a POW camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.
X06dE TIL American Samoans hold U.S. passports mentioning they are U.S. nationals, but not U.S. citizens
rRdjW TIL a Ukrainian child psychiatrist, Grunya Sukhareva, discovered Asperger Syndrome 20 years before Hans Asperger did
p88le Potatoes are close, but not close enough.