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TIL that Galileo wasn’t vindicated by the Church until 1992

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VOgp TIL net-hunter cone snails release sedatives into the water to lull their victims into a deep sleep before engulfing multiple fish at a time in their horrific, tentacle-covered, extensible mouths.
oZ4E TIL Anyone in the US Military system can send classified evidence of wrongdoing to their congressional representative if reporting it up their chain of command fails to produce results
1aK1V TIL the Guillotine remained the official capital punishment of France until 1981, the last beheading occuring in 1977
lodaN TIL of a device called Stentrode that functions as a brain–computer interface (BCI). It allows people with paralyzed or missing limbs to use their neural signals or thoughts to control computers and other devices. Human trials using the implanted device have begun.
oBWpE TIL Unicorns really did exist at one point dating back to around 29,000 years ago