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TIL: Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth

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4wE6 TIL: In the 1980s, when the Navy found out about the slang term “Friend of Dorothy”, which gay men used for secretly identifying each other, they launched an enormous witch hunt, as they thought there was actually a woman named Dorothy who ran a massive underground homosexual military personnel
7rDYP TIL In-N-Out burgers operates occasional pop-up restaurants in Australia for the sole purpose of protecting their tradmark there.
vgB4 TIL the location of the oldest trees in the world are intentionally kept secret; the oldest known tree, Old Hara, was only known to the two dendrochronologists that cored and dated it, both of whom are now dead
nWXQ7 TIL that internal combustion engines can run on wood. Using a device called a gasifier, the engine can run on the gasses produced when wood or charcoal burns.
9wvLB TIL that Ma and Pa Kettle, from the book The Egg and I, were actually based on a real family, the Bishops.