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TIL that a human being can remain perfectly functional after having an entire cerebral hemisphere removed. One patient completed college, attended graduate school and scored above average on intelligence tests, with literally only half a brain.

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Oo5e4 TIL that the telecom company Sprint was built on infrastructure belonging to the former Southern Pacific Railroad, where it gets its name from: Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Network Telecommunications (S.P.R.I.N.T.)
OGLW6 TIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. This will only reproduce identical young, however. For the species to continue to adapt, it needs to mate.
d8ywB TIL Thomas Jefferson for many years "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves” named Sally Hemings.
9LkD TIL in 2003, a man with a warrant for his arrest was caught on a “Kiss Cam” when his parole officer happened to be at the Cincinnati Reds game too
D1oxg TIL in 2000, Microsoft was ordered to split in two by the US government in an anti-trust suit. Microsoft appealed and eventually settled, agreeing to cease anti-competitive behaviour.