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TIL That King James (of the King James Bible) was recorded to have homosexual relationships.

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4kMDa TIL: Atlanta is known as the “City in a Forest” for the most heavily forested urban area in the country”. Tree canopy covers 47.9% of Atlanta
nWkG7 TIL That the human brain can generate enough electricity to light up a small LED bulb, although this electrical energy is not used to power the human body in a significant way. The electrical signals produced by the brain allow neurons to communicate with each other and can be measured using an
69GMm TIL when Australia first joined Usenet in 1983, data was stored on tape and physically sent via air mail to the University of Sydney for dissemination. This was cheaper than an international data link then.
8ablP TIL that in 2008 famous DJ deadmau5 missed a flight in Spain just seconds after the jet bridge was closed, upsetting the DJ because he was late for another show. The air plane barely took off before crashing and killing 152 people
JXAv TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains