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TIL it’s illegal to masturbate if you’re incarcerated in a U.S. prison

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yVK1p TIL There's a branch of science called necrobiotics which can turn spider corpses into robots
KOn56 TIL that Bagpipes in electronic music with Indian influences is a thing!
DQnDV TIL in 2017, a team of scholars, linguists, and computer scientists at the University of Padua analyzed 150 Italian novels written by 40 authors. They used different methods to determine that Domenico Starnone, a male writer, is the probable author of the Elena Ferrante novels.
R7Wa9 TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
grDMX TIL that after the 1855 death of the great mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, his brain was preserved for study and became the subject of numerous papers. It was only discovered in 1998 that the his label had gotten swapped with that of the brain of pathologist Conrad Fuchs who died the same year.