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TIL Music is so influential on the brain that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world.

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ZpPVQ TIL that contrary to popular belief, the Mesopotamian god Dagon has nothing to do with fish or the sea, and the portrayal of him as a fish god based entirely on the medieval belief that his name was derived from the Hebrew word for fish, "dāg", which was debunked in the 1920s
xx0B TIL Churchill kept a bed in the Houses of Parliament and believed that napping was the key to his success in leading the country through the Battle of Britain.
a5BM TIL that in 1961, a 27 year old Soviet doctor stationed at the South Pole performed a self-appendectomy using a mirror. He fully recovered.
xZAw TIL that Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood
l77D1 TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).