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TIL that Ireland’s first ever olympic medal (silver) was for painting

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Z8dyY TIL Crayola has a "Colors of the World" crayon box that includes 24 skin tone shades
ADMmo TIL that young chimpanzees outperformed college students, in both in speed and accuracy, at a working memory task involving numbers. This suggest that chimps have a photographic memory, which allows them to memorize a complex scene or pattern at a glance.
NXLON TIL the dumb and dumber mocking bird song is a real song.
yD1X TIL “Recovery from anesthesia is not simply the result of the anesthetic ‘wearing off,’ but also of the brain finding its way back through a maze of possible activity states to those that allow conscious experience,” one researcher said. “Put simply, the brain reboots itself.”
eDeD TIL that Johnny Depp financed Hunter S. Thompsons funeral saying “All I’m doing is trying to make sure his last wish comes true. I just want to send my pal out the way he wants to go out.”