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TIL Heads may remain lucid for a period of time following decapitation and it appears to be more than reflexive nerve action. Reports include specific and changing facial expressions, blinking, and eye contact with observers.

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GweQ TIL 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.
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.
WWy4 TIL that the word lunatic comes from people thinking that the moon could cause madness.
Yp987 TIL A recent development in Hoarding Disorder is the hoarding of data. This is where someone stores huge amounts of electronic data and emails that they're extremely reluctant to delete.
WkQZd TIL that Gina Han, whom police dubbed "the evil twin," was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for hatching what prosecutors alleged was a plot to kill her identical twin sister Sunny. Sunny was tied and forced to sit in a bathtub. A 911 call brought police to the scene and they arrested Gina.