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TIL octopuses have 9 brains and 3 hearts
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TIL that physicist and biologist, Luigi Galvani’s work on Bioelectricity gave Mary Shelley inspiration for Frankenstein.
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TIL that in order to settle their long standing border dispute Benin and Burkina Faso declared in 2008 that the ~68 km2 area of Koalou/Kourou would belong to neither country. Making it one of the worlds few unclaimed territories.
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TIL that the song Africa by Toto has a sound installation that was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play the song on a constant loop. That installation is powered by solar batteries, allowing the song to be played indefinitely.
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TIL, Nintendo actually owns the rights to Super Hornio Brothers and Super Hornio Brothers 2, which are porn parodies of the Mario Bros. games.
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TIL about Mauro Prosperi who was lost in the Sahara. To avoid agonizing death from starvation and to save his wife from legal red tape, he slashed his wrists with a knife. However, due to his severe dehydration, his blood had clotted around the cuts. He reached a nomad tribe a few days later.