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TIL NFL football offensive lineman John Urschel has been published in several complex mathematics journals.

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XEaKE TIL of "Bakin' Bacon with Macon" a mock cooking show filmed with South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker as TV chefs, the segment was included on the second Season DVD. The show featured a pig named Macon, who on the segment, is fed bacon.
R5dM8 TIL the world's largest shopping mall is in Iran. (Iran also has the 4th largest.) Kuwait has the second largest. China holds 3 spots in the top 10. The largest mall in the US, The Mall of America, is the twelfth largest worldwide.
X0OR8 TIL "Bologna degrees" are a type of European higher education degree and not fake degrees (though they appear to not always be accepted by US institutions)
Jym4 TIL a patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder who was blind for 15 years began regaining vision after psychotherapy. When a personality with vision was dominant the electrical activity in the visual cortex was normal. A blind personality would shut the visual cortex of their brain off.
AkMa TIL elephants are the only mammal other than humans which have chins.