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TIL that Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo - today would have been Stephen’s 83rd birthday

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5VP19 TIL: The image where the tongue folds the tip backwards and goes all the way into the nasal passage way is real- its name: Khechari Mudra.
A7ew TIL 57% of the men mobilised in World War I died
JYlpm TIL that movie sets call clothespins C-47 for Tax purposes
a8n7b TIL about the recurrent laryngeal nerve, and how the big old detour it takes all down the neck, under the aortic arch, and back up the neck is evidence for evolution.
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program