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TIL that some patients remain awake during brain surgery so doctors can ensure vital areas controlling speech or movement aren’t damaged. They can talk and even play instruments mid-surgery.

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p8pYA TIL: Eating hamburger patties medium-rare is a lot more dangerous than medium-rare steak because of bacteria concentrations
RAWw TIL that there’s no such thing as a wild ferret. They were domesticated from the European Polecat over 3,000 years ago.
Z8bDQ TIL, Alice in Wonderland was once banned in China, "Bears, Lions and other beasts cannot use human language"said the governor of the Hunan province in 1931. "To attribute to them such a power is an insult to the human race"
GYWdE TIL that Serhii Koroliov, head engineer of the soviet space program, was tortured for 6 years in the GULAG prior to sending Yurii Gagarin to space. The other rocket scientists he was arrested with were executed.
gDoW TIL Ireland exported enormous quantities of food during the height of the 1840’s Great Famine, “more than enough grain crops to feed the population.”