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TIL a porcupine cannot be raped

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E1PKx TIL that when EEG was used to measure brain activity of a woman with multiple personality disorder there was no brain activity linked to sight whenever one of her blind 'alters' was in control (although her eyes were open), but that normal activity returned to the area when a sighted alter took over
1a4GW TIL that the signature drum-intensive tune [https://youtu.be/-4_d_6A8nE0 ] that used to precede any CBS Special Presentation (Charlie Brown cartoons, etc) was actually a snippet taken from the original "Hawaii-50" TV theme song.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.
JYbWk TIL a freshwater lake in Canada is one of only a few lakes in the world to contain living coral reef like structures believed to resemble early life on earth or life on other planets.
lKMB TIL Akons birth name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam.