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TIL There’s a chance you might get blown to smithereens if you donate your body to science… Jim Stauffer said the paperwork asked specifically if medical tests involving explosions were OK. “We checked the ‘no’ box on all that,”

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xV6w0 TIL James O’Keefe impersonated a wealthy donor, but forgot to hang up the phone and accidentally recorded a long message explaining the details of the operation
YpZZZ TIL that a "20% chance of rain" can mean that there is a 20% chance that rain will occur in a given area, or that there is a 100% chance that rain will occur in 20% of a given area, or anything in between.
69m6Q TIL that the majority of psychological research has been found to have a “WEIRD bias,” meaning that test subjects were from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. As much as 96% of data comes from countries with only 12% of the world's population.
BgOyk TIL: Hox genes, that specify regions of the body plan of an embryo along the head-tail axis of animals, are some of oldest common genes, from flies, fish and mice to humans, indicating an early common ancestor.
DQgag TIL it’s a myth that any amount of alcohol consumption kills brain cells and the quantity required to actually kill a brain cell would also kill you. Instead, alcohol does harm dendrites, which are the branch-like ends of brain cells that are key for passing messages from one neuron to another.