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TIL that it wasn’t until he was 37 when Jack Nicholson found out that his supposed “sister”, June, was actually his mother

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kJmg TIL that, according to a June 2012 Gallup poll, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.
mknx TIL: The “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. It got its name from children slurring the ending of the alphabet song together so “and per se and” became “ampersand”
YpxyW TIL that the human brain filters incoming information using prior knowledge. These leaves us with an experience of the outside world that is shifted away from reality and towards our beliefs and expectations.
MEoW TIL severing the limb of a Bloodwood tree triggers the same type of response you’d see if you severed a human limb. The damage causes the release of a deep crimson sap that looks alarmingly like human blood; its sole purpose is to coagulate and seal wounds, but has many other medical uses as well.
W77a9 TIL in 2010, a Princeton research team discovered that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.