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TiL the human brain can generate enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

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m1j7Y TIL a US law firm set up honeypots on torrent-sharing site The Pirate Bay and then sued those who downloaded them. The matter reached the FBI and The Pirate Bay collaborated with the feds resulting in the crooked lawyers getting jail time.
Jv4V TIL of the Fermi paradox, a concept that states that the apparent lack of life in the universe is proof that intelligent life always destroys itself before it can expand into space
98yM TIL that Eva Vertes discovered an important compound that stops the death of brain cells, a crucial step in a cure for Alzheimer’s, when she was 17
K894 TIL while in high school the physicist Michio Kaku built a 2.3 million volt atom smasher betatronic accelerator in his garage
epva5 TIL After water, concrete is the most widely used substance on the planet