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TIL How a Colorless Gas Controls Brain's Immune System. NO Regulates Microglia Activity via TRPV2

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7XQL TIL: Treadmills used to be used as punishment for prisoners in the 1800’s. The treadmills powered grain mills (hence the name treadmill) and pump water.
KOmD6 TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening is left handed, and that's why there was a whole episode devoted to Ned Flanders and his Leftorium.
J1DXV TIL Fender Guitars conducted research and discovered that 90% of beginners cease playing the guitar within a year. The remaining 10%, however, buy 5-7 guitars and multiple amps, spending an average of $10,000 on equipment throughout their lives.
Y7W67 TIL that when Victor Hugo died in 1885, some Parisian brothels reportedly closed for a day to mourn his passing.
D1xJ TIL that the hacker group, UGNazi, took down the Papa Johns website because their pizza was 2 hours late.