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TIL that in Michelangelo’s famous painting “The Creation of Adam”, there is an anatomically correct image of the human brain behind God, with his right arm extending to the prefrontal cortex, the most “human” part of the brain.

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pPQp TIL: A majority of people who’ve had a near-death-experience report sensations of detachment from the body, total serenity, warmth and the presence of a light. However a minority have reported panic, anguish, desperation, intense loneliness and the sensing of evil, malevolent forces
ge88 TIL of the “Navy eReader Device”, or NeRD, an e-reader developed by the United States Navy’s General Library Program for use aboard U.S. Navy submarines
PYX1J TIL about Planned Obsolescence, the designing of consumer goods to have a limited lifespan.
rNGW0 TIL Samsung created a butt shaped robot that sits on their phones to test their durability. The robot exerts 220 pounds of pressure on their phones during testing. The robot even wears jeans.
5YnLP TIL about the Dunning–Kruger effect, which is "a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is"