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TIL A Swedish company has created a "Mollii" suit that helps people with Parkinson's disease and stroke get rid of tremors using electrical stimulation.

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X0pK8 TIL about the Henokiens, an association of companies that have been continuously operating and remain family-owned for 200 years or more, and whose descendants still operate at management level. It counts 54 members
neNkY TIL that if you lose 75% of your liver, it'll grow back completely in one year.
loEl5 TIL that the "tires" on the Apollo lunar rovers were made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire with titanium treads to keep them from sinking into the lunar soil. The tracks they left are only 1/2" deep.
JYQj1 TIL that holding in a sneeze could technically cause a fatal brain aneurysm.
Ldvv TIL in 2009, a woman filed suit against PepsiCo after discovering that the crunchberries in a Cap'n Crunch cereal had not in fact been real fruit. The case was thrown out, with the judge remarking that to do otherwise would “ignore all concepts of personal responsibility and common sense”.