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TIL of Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity

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8ReX TIL of Captain Canuck, a superhero who lives in the futuristic world of 1993, where “Canada had become the most powerful country in the world.”
vP09K TIL "Bank of America" was actually founded as the Bank of Italy in 1904
OOO7 TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!
ZBGD TIL Tutankhamun only had one set of grandparents. His father and mother were also sister and brother. He also had a cleft lip and a club foot.
JY9D8 TIL: Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine devised a system roughly analogous to a dialysis machine, called BrainEx, that restores circulation and oxygen flow to a dead brain. Using BrainEx, they restored restored cellular function in 32 pig brains that had been dead for over four hours.