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TIL Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes on "Sherlock," is distantly related to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who created the character.

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8axyK TIL the oldest existing, continually operating higher education institution in the world is the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco - it was founded in 859CE by a Muslim woman, Fatima al-Fihri.
M7rBW TIL adolescents who experienced cyberbullying were more than four times as likely to report suicidal thoughts and attempts
YpRYA TIL Alexis Goggins, a 7 year-old girl, once took 6 bullets meant for her mother. The perpetrator, her mom's ex, fired several shots in her body, but she still managed to survive.
GMQ1 TIL magic mushrooms may give users trippy experiences by creating a hyperconnected brain. The active ingredient in the psychedelic drug, psilocybin, seems to completely disrupt the normal communication networks in the brain, by connecting “brain regions that don’t normally talk together.”
yQa TIL Van Partible (creator of Johnny Bravo), Craig McCracken (creator of Powerpuff Girls), and Genndy Tartakovsky (creator of Dexter’s Laboratory) were all roommates in college.