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

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ZvWB TIL that a woman who died in 2009 had at least 1400 descendants (11 children, 150 grandchildren, 1000 great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren)
d86kr TIL that the ceremonial gavel of the US Senate, in use since at least 1789, was broken in 1954 during a heated debate on nuclear energy by VP Richard Nixon
7ZPr TIL that John Paul I (1912-1978), the last pope who avoided the typical papal regalia and tried to make major progressive reforms to Church doctrine, died just one month into his papacy under mysterious circumstances. The Church has never investigated his death.