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TIL all the dogs that have played Lassie are descended from the original actor, Pal

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ADENd TIL that Marconi believed, late on in life, that no sound ever dies completely. He dreamt of building a device strong enough to pick up the actual words of Jesus at the 'Sermon on the Mount'.
46Jg TIL on 18/04/1930 on the BBC News the news was that there was no news.
nep0r TIL a man called Roger Sperry performed brain experiments on cats and monkeys. He found that if the two brain hemispheres were not connected they would function independently of one another, and even enable the split-brain of the animals to memorize double the information.
RLM7 TIL when you look in the sky and see dots and swirls, it’s not a illusion. It is actually the shadows of white blood cells reflecting off of your retina.
EgDlX TIL AAA Tested 6 Vehicle Escape Tools and all 6 failed on laminated glass. Two failed on tempered glass. Testing results on Page 14.