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TIL a brain damaged rat was given a robotic cerebellum. The cyborg rodent then achieved normal body functions.

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JYKm8 TIL that it wasn’t until 1935 that a manufacturer was able to promise “splinter-Free Toilet Paper.”
pY4QO TIL about "Go motion" a stop motion technique created by Phil Tippet in which they animate puppets connected to computers that record movements, then just filming the puppet being articulated by the computer replaying the movements it had recorded, all in order to avoid adding artificial motion blur
VkA0 TIL That the man who holds the world record for the largest Yo-Yo collection also swam half a mile with his foot in his mouth…
gMPa7 TIL hundreds of love letters between two gay World War II soldiers were found and are being made into a book. In one, one of them wrote, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”
e0Y0L TIL in 981 a hospital's location was chosen by hanging pieces of meat in several places for a few days and deciding in favor of the one where meat was found to be least infected