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TIL when we look at a smiley face online, the same very specific parts of the brain are activated as when we look at a real human face

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v1ODr TIL that an African American secret service agent that guarded JFK was arrested and imprisoned on bribery charges in 1964. Coincidentally he was going to tell the Warren Commission that his fellow agents were intoxicated most of the time and had a lackadaisical approach to their job
4Xa8R TIL that the Kilimanjaro Safari ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom has so much land (110 acres), the entire Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom park (107 acres) can fit inside it.
b9yaj TIL that the blobfish only looks ugly because they deflate from the pressure difference of being pulled to the surface
E1EKV TIL The first U.S. gold rush started in North Carolina in 1803 when a 12-year-old boy found a 17-pound gold nugget on his father’s farm. It supplied all the gold for the nation’s mints until 1829.
E1kGP TIL Paper fortune tellers have 5 other names