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TIL there are cells in the pancreas called the "Islets of Langerhans"

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vPP88 TIL Apollo-11 (Moon landing) guidance system computer had 4kb RAM and 32kb hard drive.
rRl1d TIL King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo into one massive slave plantation that resulted in an estimated 10,000,000 deaths, with historians comparing him to Hitler and Stalin.
awPd0 TIL that The Ancient Egyptians believed that the false door was a threshold between the worlds of the living and the dead and through which a deity or the spirit of the deceased could enter and exit.
PYQbV TIL even animals like jellyfish that lack brains need to snooze. Biologists have discovered that like people, jellyfish hit the hay & have the same trouble we do waking up. Because these creatures are very low on the animal family tree, the work suggests that the ability to sleep evolved quite early
yZ6e TIL in 1976, then 16-year-old “Weird” Al Yankovic started his career by handing a homemade tape of original and parody songs performed on the accordion in his bedroom into a “cheesy little tape recorder” to Dr Demento, a radio DJ who was speaking at his school.