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TIL to understand a pun, the brain's left and right hemispheres have to work together due to the unique structure of the joke.

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QNyb6 TIL that a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, but she kept testing positive for alcohol, which prevented her from getting a transplant, despite swearing that she hadn’t been drinking. The doctors were confused, and it later turned out that her body produced its own alcohol.
L5AV TIL that GPS is, and will always be free because Korean Air Lines flight 007 was shot down over Russia in 1983
kOQY7 TIL that a thumb between the index and middle finger (Fig Sign, also known as the "Got your nose!" hand) is a disused hand signal that means "sex" in Japanese.
GAPM1 TIL Jeff Koons' studio resembles an art factory. He doesn't do the sculpting or much of the painting in his artwork. It's his ideas & standards but artisans do the labor. In 2019, his stainless steel inflatable rabbit resold for $91 million; highest ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist
1aQ4D TIL that a mutation called "pseudomelanism" can make affected zebras to appear to be spotted instead of striped.