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TIL that Natalie Portman has had papers published in two scientific journals. While at Harvard, she co-authored a study called “Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.”

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bJYE TIL a guy dissected every scene from Lost and put them in a chronological timeline. He took every flashback, flash forward, and flash sideways, extracting them from the present day storyline, and created one big timeline.
8ePPL TIL about Clowns without Borders, an international organization that travels to conflict zones around the World to relieve suffering through laughter
rJoM TIL Two paragliders were sucked into a thunderstorm during practice. The updraft was so powerful that one pilot was sucked up to 19,000 feet and killed by a lightning strike. The pilot of the second glider passed out from the altitude, but woke up still airborne and covered in ice.
l75dK Today I learned that Sperm Whales are actually named after Sperm. Seamen opened a Sperm Whale’s noggin and thought the oily substance was...Semen.
y0op TIL that during the Berlin Blockade in 1948 a pilot who was doing supply drops for the civilians became known as ‘Uncle Wiggly Wings’ after he started dropping candy and chocolate from his plane and wiggling his wings so people knew it was him.