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TIL that researchers Limb, Limb, Limb, and Limb, in a study of doctors, figured out that doctors tend to choose a specialization that fit their surnames, alias nominative determinism (ie. Dr. Gore the surgeon)

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6EDLY TIL that a cast member on a 1980s Christian TV show called "Joy Junction" was arrested in 2013 on charges after planning to kill and eat children. The show has since been nearly scrubbed out of existence with only 1 episode surviving on Youtube.
E1PV0 TIL 95% of Serotonin in the human body is located in the gut
0l8v TIL When “Mona Lisa” was stolen in 1911, the police arrested and questioned Pablo Picasso for stealing it.
ADMmo TIL that young chimpanzees outperformed college students, in both in speed and accuracy, at a working memory task involving numbers. This suggest that chimps have a photographic memory, which allows them to memorize a complex scene or pattern at a glance.
k7W1 TIL: There is a last known recording of Hitler in conversation describing why the war didn’t go well in his own opinion.