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TIL the brain can be kept alive outside the body for days.

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BrN1L TIL the world has a net worth of over $280 Trillion. The US is the wealthiest country ($93.5 Trillion) followed by China ($29 Trillion).
xVvY0 TIL ginger beer is brewed (fermented), but ginger ale is just carbonated water that's been flavored with ginger.
Bmoy TIL. The first nuclear missile test in space “starfish prime” knocked out several allied satellites and disabled communications on Hawaii.
lL6K TIL it’s possible for amateur radio operators to call the ISS and even get a response from an off duty astronaut
05dR TIL the magnitude 9.0 great earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011 “was so powerful that its rumble was ‘heard’ from space. Scientists in France and the Netherlands have found that sound waves from the quake reached as far as an orbiting satellite [GOCE], 260 kilometres [161.6 miles] above.”