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TIL that 'smooth brain' is a real medical malfunction where people have brains that lacks the typical bumps and folds. The medical term is 'lissencephaly'.

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gMgpy TIL about the Seven Laws of Noah, which are commandments applicable to all of humanity according to Judaism
78erX TIL that all the gold that has ever been mined in all of human history could fill about three Olympic-sized swimming pools.
XElNR TIL that P.T. Barnum's famous elephant Jumbo got his name from the Swahili word for chief. It was the elephant who caused the word "jumbo" to mean something large - not the other way around.
64Bl TIL That the US Pentagon wants packs of robots that will hunt down “uncooperative humans”
JYbBk TIL France once bought 2,000 trains that were too wide to fit in many platforms in the country. The government has to spend millions of euros to widen many platforms in order to allow the trains to fit.