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TIL that women have 16 percent less neocortical neurons than men

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e0w16 TIL: The 2012 Olympic Committee asked Music Manager Bill Curbishley to have drummer for "The Who" Keith Moon perform the opening ceremonies. Curbishley replied "If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him." Keith Moon had been dead for 34 years.
VMV04 TIL that in the 70s the US and Soviet baby feared the other had developed a new antisubmarine weapon that damaged wires rubber attached to probes due to deep circle holes left in the rubber, it turns out that these were in fact the bite marks of the relatively unknown cookie cutter sharks
mxlRE TIL that Myanmar (Burma) doesn’t use the metric system, but it doesn’t use the imperial system either, instead, they have their own system of measurement called the Burmese system
aJZb TIL that 3,278 Americans are serving life without parole for non-violent crimes, including petty crimes like shoplifting.
PYVnw TIL camels once existed in Canada's far north. The Yukon giant camel was an 3.5 million-year-old ancestor of the living domestic camel found today in the deserts of Asia and Africa.