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TIL orgasms happen from high levels of synchronized activity in multiple parts of both brains

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x69AB TIL In 1990, Muhammad Ali defied then-President George H.W. Bush's wishes by traveling to Iraq, where he secured the release of 15 American citizen hostages held in Iraqi prisons and brought them home. ( President Bush would eventually award him the Medal Of Freedom.)
Lk7Np TIL about Walter Schramm and escheat. He bought AMZN stock in 90's and pledged not to look at his stock account for 20 years. After 20 years logged on and $100,000 worth of Amazon stock was gone. Taken by the state government as unclaimed property because his account was deemed inactive.
wJ06 TIL After President Kennedy’s autopsy, his brain and all autopsy tissues and materials dissapeared. To this day it’s unknown what happened to them.
woOP8 TIL that in 1986, electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre in his next album was going to include a saxaphone piece played by astronaut Ron Mcnair, which would have made it the first piece of music to be recorded in space, but McNair, along with the rest of his crew died during the Challenger Disaster
VMe7k TIL all button mushrooms used to be brown until 1926, when a mushroom farmer in Pennsylvania found a cluster of white buttons growing in his beds, which he cloned and began selling as a new variety.