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TIL that an Australasian based company is making progress in combatting dementia by literally transplanting cells into patients' brains to promote regeneration of the nervous system.

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YpmxP TIL The body of Mats Israelsson was preserved so well in vitriol in the Falun Mine that when his body was found 40 years after his death he looked like he had just died
kJ195 TIL that Cancun did not exist as a city until the 1970s, with Isla Cancun having only three inhabitants who were caretakers of a coconut plantation
a87Xb TIL Beethoven in his 1822 composition Piano Sonata No. 32 wrote a powerful, heavily syncopated passage that has been described as boogie-woogie, jazz, and ragtime, a style which would not exist for another 70 years.
9jgB TIL while directing Jurassic Park, when Spielberg saw CGI of T. rex, he said to stop motion animator Phil Tippett , “You’re out of a job,” to which Tippett replied, “Don’t you mean extinct?”. Spielberg later incorporated this dialogue into the movie
Y1yv TIL A&W introduced a burger that was bigger and less expensive than McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, but it failed because customers assumed 1/3 was less than ¼.