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TIL that this is what your neurons look like when you learn something new

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kOQK5 TIL that in 2008 (before iOS and Android had released their app stores), there were more than 50,000 third-party apps available for Palm OS - including open-source, freeware, shareware, and paid apps
kOM71 TIL German was the first language of the majority of households until the 1950s in Schaumburg (Illinois)
KOx9w TIL Centenarians tend to be small people, even allowing for shrinkage & secular growth. Okinawans have the greatest concentration of them, 500/million, the average male of which is just 148.3 cm (4'10½") & female 138.8 cm (4'6 1/2½").
kJvPm TIL of Jack, a baboon who acted as an assistant to a disabled railway signalman in the 1800s. Trained to push a wheelchair and operate the railway signals under supervision, the baboon got 20 cents a day, and half a bottle of beer each week. Apparently, he never made a mistake in 9 years of service.
bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.