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TIL we don't actually know how or why general anesthesia works

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WkBp8 TIL between 2006 and 2010 the Motorola cellphone market share went down from 21.1% to 2.4%.
j6y8n TIL that in 550 AD, the Byzantine Emperor sent two monks to China to smuggle silk worms out of there to avoid Persian control over the Silk Road. The monks hid the worms in their walking sticks, and the silk industry they started lasted for 650 years.
1aXY8 TIL Brazil has a thriving Southern Confederate ex-pat community that hold festivals every April
X0rKP TIL Ian Curtis of Joy Division died before John Lennon
xVaa1 TIL Juan García, deliberately became a double agent against the Nazi's during WWII. He was so good he was awarded medals by both sides in the war. He convinced the Nazi's the D-Day landing was a diversion for an attack in Pas de Calais, so they kept large forces there before and after the invasion.