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TIL snake anti venom is made from the neutralising antibodies that a horse produces when it is injected with snake venom

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rEkw TIL that high dream recallers have stronger brain activity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) and in Temporo-perietal Junction (TPJ); this makes them wake up many times during sleep and enables them to remember dreams more efficiently than low dream recallers.
6j0Y TIL in 2011 a bishop watched a television interview with Boy George, and discovered that an 18th century stolen Cypriot icon was hanging in the singer’s living room. Boy George immediately agreed to return the artefact and received a gift in return.
PvgG TIL that there is a disorder called “William’s Syndromes” in which one of its primary features is “pathological friendliness”
JYenk TIL Sony sold a Walkman Mp3 player packaged in a bottle of water to prove it was waterproof
5lB8 til in 2005, Denver took people’s dogs and euthanized them if them they resembled a pit bull