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TIL, author Tom Robbins never edits his books. He spends hours or days on a single sentence before moving on, and once he puts a period on it, he never changes it.

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68K7 TIL: The family of Chris Benoit, the 40 year old wrestler who killed his wife and son before hanging himself in 2007, consider his death a result of brain damage, after tests showed years of wrestling injuries left him with the brain of an 85 year old with an advanced form of dementia
W7gmd TIL that our brain generates more electrical impulses in one day than all the telephones in the world
epkek TIL there are 29% (or 12.8 percentage points) more male home gardeners (56.4%) in the US than there are female home gardeners (43.6%)
xRGo TIL British intelligence once executed “operation cupcake” to hack an online al-Qaeda magazine, replacing bomb making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.
5PVr TIL That in Titanic, Jack claims to have gone ice fishing on Lake Wissota, near Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Lake Wissota is a man-made reservoir which wasn’t created until 1917.