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TIL - we use all of our brains. Constantly.

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YpX6Z TIL That the vast majority of meth labs in the U.S. are located in the Midwest, with Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee home to as many labs as the rest of the U.S. combined
a8xOA TIL the owner and operator of the silk road was arrested at the San Francisco public Library when two fbi agents pretended to be quarreling lovers to distract him while his laptop was open. This was to prevent any deletion of data.
5Ywyr TIL that even the Ku Klux Klan classifies the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group; the KKK were one of the main counter protesters against the Church's anti-Memorial Day protests at the Arlington Cemetery, Virginia
M77RW TIL that sunsets on Mars are blue
j6OyR TIL that Oymyakon, a remote village in Siberia, holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in an inhabited place: −67.7°C (−89.9°F) on February 6, 1933 . Despite its name meaning “water that doesn’t freeze,” everything in Oymyakon freezes.