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TIL that a YouTuber Scientist is training rat neurons to play DOOm

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R5Zg7 TIL that on average, the objects within our Solar System's asteroid belt are about one million kilometers or 600,000 miles apart from each other. For reference, the Earth's diameter is 12,742 kilometers or 7,917.5 miles
b9aRZ TIL that Jesse Owens "Day of Days" in 1935 saw him set four world records in 45 mins in athletics
XEWAR TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA star, is actually a published novelist and has written about the adventures of Mycroft Holmes, in addition to other works
nJVr TIL Eric Clapton said some very racist things. “This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don’t want f*****g wogs living next to me.”
YAO7 TIL That Banting and Best sold away their rights to profit off insulin for $1 and today it can cost a person living with diabetes as much as $400 a month for their own insulin needed to survive.