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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.

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LQOeZ TIL the Empire State Building opened during the Depression, and took 20 years to become profitable.
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MeVvA TIL of Joy Milne, the woman who can smell Parkinson's. In one test, she was given 12 t-shirts, 6 from those who have Parkinson's and 6 from those without. She identified 11 of them but was adamant that one control subject had Parkinson's. 8 months later that subject was diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Z8GZG TIL I learned that, adjusted for inflation, the entire US Apollo Lunar program only cost $288 billion over its lifetime
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