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TIL A cat’s brain is more similar to a man’s brain than that of a dog.

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aPVb TIL Apollo 12 commander Pete Conrad’s first word upon setting foot on the Moon was “Whoopee!” in order to win a $500 bet with an Italian journalist that NASA didn’t script astronaut declarations.
MQ70 TIL that in 1993 a “toxic lady” (who had been ingesting large amount of Dimethyl Sulfoxide) in Riverside, CA caused doctors and nurses to become severely ill when they were exposed to her body and blood.
P17ZZ TIL that an Australian man who lived by a cliff prevented at least 180 suicides in his 45 years of living there, by striking up a conversation with people contemplating suicide and inviting them to his house for tea.
W7MoN TIL that females typically have more white blood cells and develop fewer infectious diseases
yZ7w TIL that largest donation that Yale University has received in it’s 312 year history is $250 million. It was given by the former Franklin Resources Inc chairman, Charles B. Johnson. Johnson, 80, is an alumnus (1954 graduate) of the University