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TIL that Lincoln considered joining the ill fated Donner Party but stayed because of family.

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gvWL TIL That astronauts have a patch of velcro inside their helmet, so that they can scratch their nose.
0wYGL TIL about the human connectome project, a project that maps the neural connections in human brain, just like the human genome project to map the DNA .
ZBDY TIL that the Single Men ‘Don’t See The Need’ To Wash Bed Sheets Frequently
BRwW TIL that the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” is about Mary Tudor, and that the “silver bells and cockle shells” are allusions to instruments of torture.
XEGvk TIL that studies have found a correlation that suggests that people with musical training tend to be more successful when learning foreign languages