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TIL that about 95% of the serotonin in your body is produced in your gut, not your brain.

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5omD TIL A man who would later become the president of Mormon church once declared, “We will never get a man into space. […] The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen”… in 1961.
RZZl TIL the word Scientist was coined as a portmanteau of Science and Artist in the 1830s.
AD5Xw TIL that out of the 36 United States presidents who ever had biological children, 19 lost a child in infancy or early childhood. The list includes George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and John F. Kennedy.
AkZB TIL when asked what it was like to be in a coma, Evel Knievel replied “How the hell should I know, I was in a coma.”
8apRP TIL that beavers hate the sound of running water so much that they will build dams around speakers that are playing the sound of water running over rocks.