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TIL Epilepsy kills as many people per year as Breast Cancer

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NXwN TIL: In the 13th century, Rabbi Moses ben Naḥman (Nachmanides) wrote a description of the first moments after creation with a striking similarity to our modern understanding of the big bang and the expansion of the universe.
MEB8 TIL Anne Frank detailed her sexual exploration in her original diary but it was later edited out by her father.
W7gb9 TIL In 2018, a Killer whale named Tahlequah, known to researchers as J35, grieved over her dead calf by carrying it across the ocean for 17 days and over 1,000 miles, refusing to let it sink.
e08ag Although coral reefs cover just 0.1% of the seafloor, they provide a home for a quarter of all marine life.
yQD9p TIL that the Harley Davidson V-Rod was developed in collaboration with Porsche and was their first motorcycle that used water cooling and overhead cams.