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TIL severing the bridge between the hemispheres in your brain causes the two hemispheres to become separate “selves” with different impulses, desires and capabilities.

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yVGJM TIL that Burgess Meredith’s last role was in Grumpier Old Men (1995), he developed Alzheimer’s but made it through the film with the help of coaching. He would die two years later in 1997.
X0J4R TIL When the Mongols invaded Iraq in 1258 they not only burnt down the Grand Library (known as the House of Wisdom), but many of the books were also torn apart by pillagers so that the leather covers could be made into sandals
m11XM TIL our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.
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R78D9 TIL that once footage from Curb Your Enthusiasm helped clear an innocent man of murder by proving he was at a baseball game where a scene was shot at the time of the murder