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TIL about the homunculus man, which shows an exaggerated human figure that illustrates the proportion of the brain devoted to the sense of touch in each part of the body.

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L8ym TIL that nuclear power is essentially steam power. The nuclear rods create steam which turns the turbine.
neRGo TIL that French President Charles De Gaulle survived an assassination attempt due to the bullet being stopped by the frame of the photograph of his daughter Anne that he always carried with him. Anne had downs syndrome and died 14 years earlier at the age of 20
dDy8B TIL that the chainsaw was created in the 18th century and was originally designed as a medical device and more precisely (debated) to cut open womens' pelvises for childbirth.
VMpwp TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects
GnRJ TIL that when the Tsar Bomba (the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated) was tested, the fireball reached nearly as high as the altitude of the release plane, and it’s yield (50 mt) was about half the maximum yield of the bomb’s design (100 Mt).