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TIL The frontal lobe is the first part of the brain to atrophy, causing difficulty in inhibiting irrelevant or inappropriate thoughts.

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LQdam TIL Yuri Gagarin was chosen for the first spaceflight instead of Gherman Titov because the first Soviet flight was to be one orbit and ~110 minutes, and the second flight 17.5 orbits and 25 hours. Someone with a stronger body was needed for the longer flight, thus the "weaker" Gagarin was chosen.
XEg7k TIL about Charles Curtis, the first and only Native American Vice President of the United States
9WXM TIL - Aluminum foil starts out as an 8 ton block that’s rolled down gradually until it yields 8 miles of foil
e0n5 TIL Bill Nye holds a patent for improved ballet shoes
nWn6P TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions.