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TIL: Robin Williams autopsy revealed he had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout his entire brain and brainstem from Lewy body disease (LBD)

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E17Mo TIL of Kenichi Ito, a japanese athlete who holds the Guinness World Record for running 100 meters on all four limbs, setting a best time of 15.71 seconds.
78MjX TIL that a scientist in the Ottoman Empire made an unpowered flight across the Bosphorus strait by jumping off the Galata tower. The Sultan then gave him a bag of gold and exiled him to Algeria.
RvV8 TIL that s5 0014+81, the biggest suppermassive black hole known, is so bright due to it’s huge event horizon that if it were 100 light years away from Earth (6.31 billion times more distant than the Sun), it would appear just as bright as our host star.
D8pP TIL that Spiders don’t have Muscles, but instead control their Blood Pressure, “like a Hydraulic System,” for movement. This partially explains why their movement is so mechanical.
WkgKX TIL in 1980 after causing roughly $200,000 in damage to SNL property and shouting “fuck New York” into the microphone, the punk band FEAR was banned from NBC for life