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TIL that ancient people believed that there was a type of Amber (Lyngurium) made of petrified cat urine

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mxkkR TIL of Aurora, an exascale computer that neuroscientists plan to use to make a map of the human brain, or connectome. The brain has more connections than the milky way has stars; mapping it would represent the single largest dataset ever collected about anything in the history of the world.
dD40Z TIL Dr Stewart Adams OBE, who led the team at Boots the Chemists which discovered Ibuprofen, tested the drug on his own hangover.
abRb TIL that after Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMAs, Comedy Central played South Park’s “Fishsticks” episode four times back-to-back
9dKr TIL 3 dogs in New Zealand were taught to drive a modified car around a race track in an effort to show the intelligence of shelter dogs.
697gY TIL the famous Guy Fawkes mask is owned by Warner Brothers and they are paid a fee with the sale of each official mask.