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TIL: We still make medications from extracts of human urine

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BrW0b TIL Walt Disney wasn’t cryogenically frozen. He was cremated and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. The rumor that he wanted to be frozen was started in 1972 by the president of the California Cryogenics Society and has since been denied by Disney’s family.
LGNr TIL The film Memento is lauded by medical experts for its accurate portrayal of anterograde amnesia and is considered “close to a perfect exploration of the neurobiology of memory”
b9kpa TIL that the United States has been in a conflict in 93% of it's existence.
jNQBX TIL that the Fox ‘Animation Domination’ block was dropped and brought back recently with 2 new shows and 3 upcoming ones (I thought it was continuous for the past 15 years)
m1GNP TIL there are over 2,000 species of native bee in Australia alone