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TIL That the brain waves of two musicians synchronize when they are performing duet.

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GpJQ TIL Galileo sent two coded message to Keppler, that Saturn has rings, and that Venus has phases (circles the sun, not the earth), which Keppler incorrectly decoded as Mars has two moons and Jupiter has a big red spot. Although not what Galileo had written, both would later be proven true.
b9Kn4 TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
woo68 TIL that all pet Syrian hamsters are descended from a single brother and sister captured in 1930.
yQdav TIL About John List, who killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him, analysing Lists’ personality to get it right, and it was on America’s Most Wanted.
Wk7JB TIL that the original TRON movie didn't win any special effects awards because the Motion Picture Academy thought they "cheated" by using computer graphics.