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8aMpX TIL the parents of 17-year-old Jesse Shipley who had died in a car crash only learned that authorities had kept his brain when his classmates went on a field trip to a morgue and saw a jar labeled Jesse Shipley that had a brain in it.
Wwmo TIL the old testament law “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” was not intended to justify retaliation. It was intended to prevent blood feuds and other excessive forms of retribution.
P1EYE TIL that towards the end of his life, George III's health had deteriorated so greatly that he was incapable of knowing or understanding that he was declared King of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife died in 1818.
b9pgQ TIL of Black Kite 'Firehawks' which are birds that deliberately spread fires in Australia by carrying burning twigs in their beaks and talons and dropping them in other areas in order to start new fires and drive out insects and small animals so they can feed on them.
Y7vZr TIL in the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that drug companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.