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TIL "Going with your gut" is a real thing. There is increasing evidence of a "second brain" in the guy called the Enteric Nervous System and the relationship between digestion, mood, health, and cognition.

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9YjvQ TIL Akira Haraguchi, who in 2006 recited 100,000 digits of pi from memory at a public event near Tokyo. It took him 16hrs 30mins.
v1BpK TIL Kevin Conroy (voice actor for Batman) went to Juiliard and was roommates with Robin Williams there
kOo15 TIL In 2013 an 82 year old nun broke into a government complex that housed nuclear missiles and spray painted anti-war slogans; she was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
oBOgK TIL Returning from the last moon landing Charlie Duke (LM Pilot A16) lost his wedding ring. During an EVA to get film from outside the craft & standing in the open hatch tethered to Ken Mattingly the ring floated out, he missed the catch, it bounced off Ken’s head. Charlie caught it on the rebound.
VdpQ TIL that the shape of a person’s corpus callosum reflects their mental rather than physical sex (i.e. someone with male genitalia at birth who identifies as female will have a female shaped corpus callosum)