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TIL Oreos activate more neurons in the brain’s pleasure centre than cocaine.

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Jx7B TIL Tesla runs an entire island on solar power. The island of Ta'u in American Samoa used to consume 300 gallons of diesel fuel daily to run generators, fuel that had to be bought and shipped, but Tesla’s solar panels and power packs provide 6 megawatt-hours of energy storage
XvkP TIL that when a word is on the ‘tip of the tongue’, your brain is actually trying to help you by blocking out similar words, but in doing so, blocks the target word.
yYR8 TIL that pigeons, penguins and flamingos don’t feed their newborne young regurgitated food but instead puke up their own cells from the crop and esophagus made specifically to feed young. The sloughed cells have more protein and fat than mammalian milk.
epMy4 TIL that at the end of the movie A League of Their Own, Dottie is not being played by Geena Davis in age makeup. She's played by actress Lynn Cartwright, who looks strikingly similar to Geena Davis, with Davis's voice dubbed over for the scenes.
GYOk4 TIL that the Dani people from West New Guinea only differentiate between two colours, mili cool/dark and mola for warm/light