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TIL that the USSR used the phrase "And you are hanging Blacks" to criticize the hypocrisy of the US pointing fingers at Soviet human rights abuses while still perpetrating lynchings.

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0wYgv TIL in an Aalto University study, participants were shown the movie Memento while making use of fMRI technology to see how the brain remembers and interprets events from clues. Unprecedented in the setup was that the subjects freely viewed the featured film in its entirety in the brain scanner.
JYmLj TIL That Cockroaches are rapidly developing immunity to pesticides and passing it on to their young. Scientists that foused the roaches with two different pesticides failed to control them, with three, they were able to control the population but not kill.
nemro TIL the world's oldest tree (Old Tjikko) is approximately 9,550 years old, and the geologist who discovered it, named it after his dead dog.
l51G TIL there is a Lake Disappointment in Australia. It was named by an explorer who followed creeks to it hoping for a freshwater source, but found a saltwater lake instead.
EVP TIL a species of pig, the Barbirusas, has tusks that can grow long enough to penetrate its own skull, killing it