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TIL your brain is able to make a decision for you seconds before you become aware of the fact that you are making a decision

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ep4eD TIL that Korean footballer Ahn Jung-hwan, who scored the winning goal in South Korea's controvential victory over Italy at the 2002 World Cup, had his contract cancelled by the owner of the Italian club where he was playing at the time the day after he scored it
5egP TIL that the great-grandfather of Russian author Alexander Pushkin, was black. An African slave bought for Peter the Great, he became a major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and a nobleman
Z8k54 TIL the musical Cats is based on a series of T. S. Eliot poems
dDaPr TIL that a 20th-cent scientist called Margarita Salas discovered the order in which messenger RNA is read, as well the existence of S Φ29 phage DNA polymerase. Through her work, she created a way to replicate trace amounts of DNA into quantities large enough for full genomic testing
8aVEZ TIL Pink Floyd's 1968 song "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" is the only track that features all five members of the band.