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TIL Wild Rodents Will Run on Mouse Wheels if You Leave Them in the Woods

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NK48 TIL that despite Alzheimer’s Disease killing nearly as many people every year as cancer (in the U.S.), it receives only a tenth of the funding from the government that cancer does.
4X1ER TIL of the Inca Maiden mummy which is 500 years old but still looks eerily lifelike. It was discovered near the summit of the volcano Llullaillaco and is one of 3 mummies of children who were sacrificed as part of a religious ritual.
yaMa TIL that all lighthouses on the US coastline have been fully automated for roughly 30 years
KMDQ TIL if you bought $350 million worth of Powerball tickets (at $2 a ticket), it’s theoretically possible to guarantee winning as there are approximately ‘only’ 175 million possible number combinations.
Oy46 TIL Dr. Seuss once wrote a satire against the antisemitism that happened in Germany. It is still read by many children obliviously to this day.