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TIL brain activity could result in up to 6,000 calories burnt a day.

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x67j0 TIL the first American woman to go to medical school was admitted as a joke. The students at Geneva Medical School thought it was joke when Elizabeth Blackwell applied to attend in 1847, so they decided to accept her. She graduated in 1849, started own practice, and opened an infirmary for the poor.
yD1X TIL “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthetic ‘wearing off,’ but also of the brain finding its way back through a maze of possible activity states to those that allow conscious experience,” one researcher said. “Put simply, the brain reboots itself.”
ADD8d Turkey got your tongue?
d80d9 TIL There were volcanos erupting on the moon when dinosaurs existed
X0MZR TIL That before semiconductor diodes and such were invented, mercury arc valves were used