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TIL that animals and their meat have different names (e.g. deer = venison) because the peasants that raised the animals used the animal’s Germanic name while the aristocracy that ate them used the French name.

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awWAy TIL Canadian researchers developed an implant which restores the movement of patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who have trouble walking, freezing on the spot and falling. By electrical stimulation to the spine via the implant, the signal reawakens the feedback from legs to brain.
5pwR TIL that it is illegal to collect or possess eagle feathers in the United States, and only enrolled members of a federally recognized Native American tribe may legally possess them.
JYrRB TIL that an American flag that was flown on the final shuttle mission in 2011, was left on the ISS to be returned to Earth by the next crew to be launched from the US. After 9 years, the crew of Demo 2 should be returning it.
ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.
LkZj0 TIL that while there is a large focus on the phenomenon of suicide in Japan / Japanese culture, they actually have lower suicide rates than Belgium, India, South Korea, Russia, and 20+ other countries. Their rate is barely higher than the United States.