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TIL that a mirror is used to treat phantom-limb pain (Pain in a limb that was amputated but the brain still thinks is attached)

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78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
v1jEx TIL that the Lobster War was a three-year long war between Brazil and France over spiny lobsters in Brazil's coast. The Brazilian government refused to allow French vessels to catch spiny lobsters 100 miles off the Brazilian coast. No one died during the conflict
xw00 TIL hockey announcer Doc Emrick used 153 distinct verbs to describe the movement of the hockey puck in the 2014 Olympic game between USA and Canada.
d884E TIL "tutti frutti" means "all the fruits" in Italian.
6xoX TIL 80 rhinos headed for Australia in bold move to save species