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TIL That nematode, the simplest worm, despite having only 302 neurons that were comprehensively mapped and researched, still exhibits a complex range of behavior, emergence of which is still not well understood. Even the basic movement can't be fully explained.

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wLRkP TIl that 46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history.
5VM7r TIL that an African warlord ended up homeless in the Netherlands after his case was dropped by the ICC
R7rl4 TIL inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.
mZ6x TIL that a female psychoanalyst from from 1940s coined the terms “womb-envy” and “vagina envy” in response to the idea of “penis envy” to describe man’s need to dominate women because of jealousy for what they cannot do biologically.
4ARN TIL Croissants are not French, they are Austrian