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TIL researchers trained flatworms, then decapitated them. After their heads grew back, researchers found they had retained their training.

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jNkgv TIL the community of Rudyard Montana is the only town or census-designated place in the lower 48 states of the USA to have a non-oceanic antipode; the only place you could proverbially dig a hole and end up on dry land.
BlNe TIL: There is a small island in Shrewsbury, MA that doesn’t belong to anyone in particular. One local man is crusading to name it Busta Rhymes Island. When asked why, he said it was because the island had “rope-swinging, blueberries, and … stuff Busta would enjoy”.
M6vV TIL firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”
nWWYP TIL the character "Daddy" Warbucks, from the comic strip 'Annie', was briefly killed off by the writer Gray on the grounds that it was widely thought that capitalists were obsolete. Warbucks was resurrected, however, after FDR's death. Warbucks represented cartoonist Harold Gray's free-market views.
d8VDZ TIL A Tiger's roar is so loud that is can be heard from over 2 miles away and can reach up to 114 decibels, which is about as loud as a jet airplane taking off.