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TIL Humans actually possess the protein (cryptochromes) needed for the detection of magnetic fields. But our brains doesn't seem to have any way to decode the information.

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4XPkg TIL that Q is the only letter that isn't in any US state's name.
R7Ngl TIL that Sleep Deprivation May Cause Brain To Eat Itself. New research shows that allowing our bodies to suffer from sleep deprivation ultimately damages our brains since it triggers an overdrive in cell activity, causing self-cannibalism
9YVOm TIL in the 1960s, a woman found the head of an axe, a gashed skull, and macabre sketches of murder victims in an iron tub in her attic. It turned out to be the evidence from the Lizzie Borden murder trial- her father had been Lizzie’s lawyer, and she’d given him the evidence after her acquittal.
N7WrM TIL curry has a longer history of being served in Britain than fish and chips, with the first Indian restaurant opening in 1809 and fish and chips only served from 1858 at the earliest.
5DLp TIL Steve Job’s Cancer was very treatable, But he wanted to fight it naturally and it killed him…