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TIL that in 2012 a rat brain in a dish was able to successfully pilot an F-22 fighter jet simulator.

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ZpRmY TIL Japan still has little white mailboxes known as "shiroposuto" for people to deposit their porn when they're done with it. The first shiroposuto was set up in 1963 to provide a discreet way to dispose of "obscene" publications
G0d4 TIL that Ringo Starr sells his MS paint art for thousands of dollars
4XQQo TIL The Way of the Dragon was co-produced, directed, and written by Bruce Lee. With a small budget of $130,000, the film grossed over $130,000,000, or 1000x its budget. For reference, Avengers: Endgame, the highest grossing film of all time, grossed approx. 8x its budget
9VMB TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
8Wja TIL: Einstein explained Relativity as “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”