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TIL There are more patterns of connections between neurons in your brain than there are sub-atomic particles in the universe, by a substantial margin

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5VlDk TIL that during the first 4 days after the United Kingdom entered World War II, over 400,000 dogs and cats — some 26 percent of London’s pets — were voluntarily put to death by their owners without any Government direction, due to fears that they could not be properly cared for during the war.
awrMb TIL of Koko the Gorilla. She knew 2,000 words of spoken English and could form 1,000 different signs of Gorilla Sign Language. One day she told her mentor that she wanted to be a mother, so she gave her a kitten who Koko named. After it died, Koko expressed grief.
m1PnE TIL that Communist Romania hated the Dracula story but was becoming dependant on Western tourism. A local functionary in the county of Bistriţa managed to trick the authorities into letting him open two Dracula themed hotels, one based on the inn that Jonathan Harker stays at in the book.
BgZaW TIL 21% of US adults are illiterate, and 54% have a literacy below sixth-grade level.
vP5BL TIL that the first American government issued quarter was released in 1796