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TIL the brains of rats have a “random mode” that is switched on when they are in unfamiliar situations

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v18ER Today I learned that the math, and human biology, behind listening to either analog or digital music, favors analog.
QvaL TIL in a 2010 report written for the Rothschild Giraffe Project, researcher Zoe Muller wrote: “It is believed [in Tanzania] that giraffe brains and bone marrow can cure HIV-AIDS victims,” adding that “freshly severed heads and giraffe bones can fetch prices of up to $140 per piece.”
6EvaZ TIL that the largest amount of babies a woman has given birth to in their lifetime is 69. Mrs. Vassilyeva, who lived in Shuya, Russia in the early 1700s, gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets: 27 pregnancies and 69 children in total.
wokeJ TIL that the name Arizona does not come from Spanish, scholars disagree on whether it actually originates from the native O'odham name "alĭ ṣonak" (good spring) or from Basque settlers who called it "haritz ona" (good oak).
v9jx TIL that after the murder of a civil rights protester in 1963, “That Was The Week That Was” a British comedy show performed a brutal satire of racism in the Deep South