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TIL: a neuroscientist studying the brains of psychopathic killers scanned his own brain as a control, only to discover that he himself was a psychopath. When he told friends and family, the universal response was, “That explains a lot.”

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x6KBB TIL there is a secret hall in Mount Rushmore referred to as the “Hall of Records” containing 16 porcelain tablets for future generations
xVgQ1 TIL: 14 cargo ships got stranded in the Suez Canal during the Six-Day-War in 1967 and weren’t able to leave until 8 years later.
7dgX TIL Biologists at Osaka University in Japan have discovered a new way to grow the many separate tissues that make up the human eyeball, including retinas, corneas, the eye’s lens, using stem cells extracted from a small sample of adult skin
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