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TIL our hands and feet wrinkle in water to provide better grip on wet objects

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p8p7G TIL about Split-Brain-Patients, who have their brain hemispheres disconnected. While those "do not show any significant difference in function" from healthy persons, you can prove with specific experiments that there are two brains working independently without recognizing each other
YBmr TIL Al Sharpton demanded an apology from Cartoon Network for depicting Martin Luther King Jr using the term “nigga” in The Boondocks. Cartoon Network responded by making fun of Al Sharpton in a radio broadcast in a later episode.
Vaw8 TIL that in 2012 when Taylor Swift held a public vote for where she would visit and preform a free concert 4chan users voted for a childrens school for the deaf and won the vote.
mplM TIL that “Baby Huey” was a 400lbs Chicago soul singer who died at age 26 after releasing a single unsuccessful album. The album later became hugely influential on early hiphop artists, eventually being sampled on hundreds of hiphop tracks over the past 35 years
QJ8a6 TIL heroin was originally marketed as a nonaddictive alternative to morphine