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TIL that some types of herring communicate by passing gas.

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b6lX4 TIL CTE can only be diagnosed after death through brain tissue analysis. Doctors with a specialty in brain diseases slice brain tissue and use special chemicals to make the abnormal tau protein visible. (Chronic traumatic encephalopathy)
VMNY0 TIL that Enrico Fermi estimated the energy released by first atom bomb (Trinity test at Manhattan Project) by dropping small pieces of paper before, during, and after the passage of the blast wave and measuring their displacement. His estimate of 10 kilotons was pretty close to actual value of 21.
loKRK TIL in 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience after ten days in the asylum. She claimed many of the patients seemed completely sane and the conditions were horrid. This led to NYC budgeting $1,000,000 to care of the insane.
XExw6 TIL That after Kennedy used the first televised debate to boost his image, no sitting president agreed to hold a debate for 16 years
8aNdZ TIL Someone remade all of Toy Story in Live Action