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TIL that researchers at Yale managed to restore some function to disembodied pig brains.

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MJnK TIL that Nigerian scams are purposely easy to identify, as they are designed to weed out the more intelligent and draw in only the most gullible or vulnerable. This is called the “process of self selection.”
4XyDN TIL: Thanks to a gruesome mistake, a French Canadian Voyageur was shot in the stomach, but later healed and recovered from the wound, scientists were better able to understand the digestive tract thanks to how his wound healed, which allowed probing of his stomach actively digesting.
ANPxd TIL in 2004, Chilean station Canal 13 inserted Cristal Beer commercial stings in the middle of a Star Wars showing, giving the impression as they were part of the movie.
5YWlR TIL had it not been for the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English we speak today would have been much different and more restrictive. The merging of Old English and Norman French led to Modern English being sort of hybrid of the two, giving another shade of meaning to words such as "swine" vs "pork".
VMbNB TIL former governor of Alabama George Wallace died the same day Gary Sinise won an Emmy for playing him in a movie (September 13, 1998)