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TIL Kevin Warwick is the first cyborg ever by getting wires surgically implanted to his nervous system

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EgoEw TIL about Lotus Isle. Once called Oregon's most surreal amusement park, a number of unfortunate happenings led to the park’s early downfall. An 11-year old boy drowned just before the opening season ended in 1930 and the next day, the President, Edwin Platt, committed suicide. More in the comments.
gr949 TIL women who have their first full-term pregnancy at an early age have a decreased risk of developing breast cancer later in life
LlW0 TIL Cats can get addicted to chasing the red light causing behavior problems. They will just constantly chase around a light or shadow and pounce upon it. They just spend their whole lives wishing and waiting
rE6w TIL Steve Jobs called his LSD experiences “one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life”
16JJ7 TIL about Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, who falsely believed, along with his followers, that a spacecraft was located behind the Hale-Bopp Comet when it passed by Earth in 1997.