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TIL Scientists conected a paralyzed woman’s brain to basic tablet so she could google about gardening

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loGmV TIL There’s a paradoxical relationship between doctors’ strikes and mortality rates: when doctors go on strike, the mortality rate either stays the same or goes down. Of the 5 strikes studied, none increased the mortality rate.
DQZJ TIL Canadian Mounties started off as the North-West Mounted Police to help protect the aboriginal people from destructive American Trappers.
wOB8 TIL when Rodney Dangerfield died they held a Native American butterfly-release ceremony hosted by Farrah Fawcett.
5ANn TIL not only can Bamboo be made into a textile, it’s also antimicrobial
jNK0M TIL that there were two AI chatbots created by Facebook to talk to each other, but they were shut down after they started communicating in a language they made for themselves.