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TIL the Hermit of North Pond- Christopher Knight- lived off of supplies he stole from nearby cabins in a secret campsite where he evaded human contact for almost 30 years. He stole and loved playing Pokemon, Tetris, and Dig-Dug but never stole games he thought were new or would be missed by kids.

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69b8X TIL that the entire Southwest fleet is Boeing 737’s.
v1Lxx TIL that the City of London, the ancient center of Greater London, uniquely allows businesses headquartered within its limits to vote alongside residents. The “business vote” was almost eliminated in 1969, but the local resident population is so small that abolishing it was considered impractical.
JYx6B Research in mice shows that neural representations of sensory information get rotated 90 degrees to transform them into memories. In this orthogonal arrangement, the memories and sensations do not interfere with one another.
8eJZK Today I learned that the moon changes its distance from Earth by about 3.3 times the diameter of the Earth (~42,500km)
9Y8OQ TIL that by suppressing the expression of certain genes specifically for beak development, scientists were able to grow a chicken embryo with a dinosaur-like snout instead of a beak