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TIL: Scientists can take neurons from the skin and graft them into the brain. These neurons become fully functional and integrated into the brain.

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xVRM0 TIL WebCrawler launched in 1994 and is the oldest surviving search engine on the web today. For many years, it operated as a metasearch engine. WebCrawler was the first web search engine to provide full text search.
Zp91R TIL The England Dan of England Dan and John Ford Coley was Danny Seals the younger brother of Jim Seals from Seals and Croft
wLXpJ Jedidiah Jenkins quit his job and decided to bike from Oregon to the southern tip of South America. His best friend, filmmaker Kenny Laubbacher, came along for the ride. This short film follows Jenkins as he shares what he's learned from his journey so far. “When you’re a kid, everything is astonishing. Everything is new, and so your brain is awake and turned on ... Once your brain establishes a routine, it stops ... the alertness goes away,” he says. By choosing adventure Jenkins is able to reactivate his brain and turn his “hundred years on this planet into a thousand.
oWgK TIL that open carrying of firearms in public is legal in 44 US states while open containers of alcohol in public is only legal in 6.
6j9Y TIL that the name “Gorillaz” isn’t a pun, because a group of gorillas isn’t called a band, it’s called a troop.