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TIL that recent research has found the brain is continuously changing its microstructure , and it does so by eating itself through a process known as phagocytosis. This can occur as a result of insufficient sleep, starvation, or as a consequence of aging or injury.

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Oovy6 TIL: The one hundred folds in a chef’s hat represent one hundred ways to cook an egg
awBrN TIL that Olympic gold medals are actually just gold-plated silver, and bronze medals are only worth about $3.
nkBY TIL After translating their slogan ‘Pepsi gives life’ into Chinese, Pepsi executives were stunned to discover that they’d just spent millions of dollars announcing ‘Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave’ in one of their ad-campaigns in China.
LkA7r TIL the Vatican has Astronomical Observatories in Italy and Arizona and were involved with a project to map the stars in the late 1890s
QN9ga TIL a gamergate is a mated worker ant that can reproduce sexually by laying fertilized eggs that will develop as females. There are 100–200 different species in which gamergates reproduce (roughly 1% of all ants) and in some species the queen caste has been completely replaced by gamergates