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TIL: Overworking your muscles can cause severe, even fatal, kidney damage in a condition called Rhabdomyolysis

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9wxL6 TIL Alysson Muotri wants Sentiomics: Sentiomics is the development and ‘education’ of human brain organoids to become sentient.
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OGxw1 TIL: Ukehi is a Japanese Shinto divination ritual that has 6 functions. To kill your enemies, manipulate the weather, animate living beings, predict an outcome, establish the will of kami, or ask for information. Normally it is used to ask a question. If nothing happens, the kami disapproves.
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