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TIL "Baseball is so popular in Japan that many new Japanese fans are surprised to learn that Americans also consider it their 'national sport'"

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6nVX TIL L. Ron Hubbard won the Ig Nobel Prize (an award for achievements that make people laugh) for his book Dianetics, a canonical text in Scientology often referred to as “Book One.”
nwEr TIL Bruce Lee had to flee Hong Kong for the US after he got into a street fight with the son of an organized crime leader.
1DoX TIL when Alexander the Great asked the philosopher Diogenes why he was sifting through the garbage, Diogenes responded,“I am looking for the bones of your father but I cannot distinguish them from the bones of his slaves.”
wEQP TIL that early American humans hunted car-size armadillos and used their shells for houses.
R50w6 TIL that Neuralink is a project that is working on a device that can implant electrodes into your brain and connect it to any computer, giving you access to artificial intelligence and cloud computing resources.