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TIL that critics of former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III protested by "posing in a lazy manner... and doing nothing"

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j6LpN TIL bull sharks can thrive in freshwater environments like Lake Nicaragua, where they can swim 120 miles up and down the San Juan River like salmon.
JYl0B TIL Fred Willard's biggest regret is turning down the role of Ted Striker on Airplane.
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 .
J448 TIL courtroom tv judges aren’t actually presiding over civil cases. They’re acting as arbitrators over dramatizations of legal cases that are resolved through a form of binding arbitration.
8Zd4 TIL New York Point lost out to Braille in the “War of the Dots” when Helen Keller considered it inferior to Braille. Her claim that it caused literacy problems among blind children was one of the chief arguments against New York Point and by 1916 Braille prevailed.