› added 1 month ago

7

TIL Your brain is constantly eating itself. This process is called phagocytosis, where cells envelop and consume smaller cells or molecules to remove them from the system.

Read more sciencefocus.com

via reddit.com

yVLde TIL before becoming the guitarist for the band Tool, Adam Jones worked on movies like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, and more.
7DQ7 TIL that in the USA, the deadliest job is logging, followed by fishing. Taxi drivers are the most likely to be murdered, more than twice as likely than cops.
4kO0b TIL A Chicago Woman named Jeanette Taylor was approved for affordable housing 29 years after applying
5Vyar TIL that FL once produced nearly 100 percent of all citrus grown in the U.S, but following two deep freezes in the 1890s, Florida’s citrus industry never fully recovered and was replaced by California. CA now produces 79 percent of all citrus in the U.S, while Florida produces less than 17 percent.
VMQgB TIL that in 1977 the life expectancy in Cambodia was 18.91 years