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TIL of the Daughter from California Syndrome where relatives of terminal patients who haven’t seen them in a long time demand aggressive procedures to prolong their life.

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0wYGL TIL about the human connectome project, a project that maps the neural connections in human brain, just like the human genome project to map the DNA .
nWpmG TIL: The number one top grossing movie that never hit #1 during its release was 2023's Oppenheimer
b6MyE TIL that Horace Tucker, the first mayor of North Las Vegas, committed two murders after leaving office.
J1naV TIL somebody has won the Kissinger Death Tontine, where people predict(ed) the death of Henry Kissinger after donating to an organization that "undoes some of the damage of US imperialism", winner gets some booze
jowv TIL That in Israel there is a prison that was secret from the world and Israel itself and was only discovered in 2003. It is believed to still exist today.