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TIL Brain Training games don’t make you any smarter.

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OoajY TIL that NASA beamed the song “Why Can’t We Be Friends?” to Soviet cosmonauts and U.S. astronauts during the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight in 1975 (The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project)
OM9X TIL that Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller did a “penny behind the ear trick” for television while having brain surgery. Teller had him remain conscious so that he could see the penny after Teller produced it and say it was the one he marked. The resulting footage was too disturbing to be aired.
v9eL TIL a worm sent into space so that its regenerative powers in zero gravity could be studied grew a second head. When the heads are removed they grow back again.
0w4bA TIL the only thing that stopped the Spanish from colonizing the plains of what would become the United Stated was the Comanche Indians who’s particular brand of ferocity and violence defeated the Spanish army time and time again. Thus, forcing a peace treaty.
EgPP7 TIL voice actor Márcio Simões dubbed the films of both Will Smith and Robin Williams for Brazilian audiences. This means he voiced the Genie in both the 1992 and 2019 versions of Aladdin.