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TIL your brain makes decisions for you seconds before you are even aware that any decision took place.

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EjLp TIL in 2013 wreckage of a German submarine was dicovered near Indonesia, including human bones and plates with Nazi insignia
wLRjW TIL Colorado researchers have 3D printed miniature Lego-style bone bricks that can heal broken bones. The blocks, which are the size of a flea, help regrowth and can be interlocked like toy bricks. They hope to scale the technology and use it to supply laboratory-made organs for human transplant.
vP8wx TIL Muhammad Ali once appeared in a DC comic book. He knocked out Superman to save him from aliens.
9YEJ6 TIL in the show The Office, Kelly, Ryan, and Toby work in the annex because they are also writers of the show and don't have time to do background work.
7B9b TIL that 170 people were able to guess the number of jelly beans in a jar accurate to .1% when their answers were averaged. Out of 4520 beans, the average guess was 4524. The phenomena is known as wisdom of the crowd.