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TIL experienced StarCraft II players showed significantly younger-looking brains than non-gamers.

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LaeQ TIL America’s first female mayor was elected in 1887. A group of men nominated her as a joke intended to humiliate women, but instead she won over 60% of the vote.
OoQoe TIL that Patton Oswalt once stood absolutely motionless during an entire 3 minute opening scene on the sitcom "King of Queens," and no one noticed it until years later.
4kwJw TIL Animal latrines used by multiple animals repeatedly as shared defecation sites were discovered in cloud forests in Costa Rica.
Vd0k TIL Jose Mujica, famous President of Uruguay, was kept imprisoned by a dictator at the bottom of a well for 2 years.
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