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TIL there are roughly the same amount of neurons and glia in your gut as in a cat's brain

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7rdaX TIL mail-in ballots work
G4Bg TIL that Disney uses bird deterrents to scare birds away from the Eiffel Tower in France, Epcot so they can keep the illusion that the tower is actually close to life size and not only 103 feet tall.
wL5wM TIL after the American Physical Society's 1986 conference in Las Vegas, the city asked them never to return, as the MGM Grand casino saw record low profits that week. This is presumed to be because the physicists in attendance knew enough probability theory not to gamble.
kOQM1 TIL Tennis legend Roger Federer also runs a Children's Education charity in Africa that has created and funded the curriculum for 7,000 schools and 1.5 million students so far
Oopv1 TIL that in 1921, spiritualists Thomas Lynn Bradford and Ruth Doran decided to test whether it was possible to communicate with the dead. Bradford killed himself by sealing his apartment and turning on his gas stove, and planned to appear as a ghost to Doran after his death. He didn't.