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TIL the hippocampus has a kind of internal switch that flips the brain between "learning mode" and "remembering mode".

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KBd4 [TIL] Muhammad Ali’s IQ was found to be in the 16th percentile, protecting him from the draft
p8pZ4 TIL of NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission, in which NASA will launch a nuclear powered drone weighing half a ton to Saturn's moon Titan. The plan is that the nuclear powered drone will fly around on Titan, scouting its terrain while searching for complex and prebiotic chemistry.
yQ8Ya TIL that Joel Silver, producer of The Matrix Trilogy, Lethal Weapon, and Die Hard helped invent Ultimate Frisbee in high school
6J9X TIL the Omaha Beef are the only indoor football team to have an all-male dance team- The Rumproasters.
p80AZ TIL that the Shroud of Turin (allegedly Jesus Christ’s burial shroud) may have been created using a lost form of medieval photography