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TIL that life really might "flash before your eyes" upon death, according to EEG study of stroke victim by Univ. of British Columbia.

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VM6b4 TIL that new tires have little rubber hairs on them as a byproduct of the manufacturing process and that those hairs do not have any practical purpose or benefit for the tire.
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.
oRxrE TIL about AI “Hallucination,” a confident response by an AI that does not seem to be justified by its training data
WwB4 TIL that psychologist B. F. Skinner got pigeons to repeat strange “rituals” by dropping food into their cage at random intervals – the birds associated their actions before the treats with reward, and demonstrated superstitious repetition of those actions
N7yDJ TIL ancient Chinese physicians kept a small ivory "medicine doll" in their desks to help them treat female patients, who were forbidden from showing too much skin to a male other than their husband. Women seeking medical attention would point to the areas on the doll where they had discomfort.