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Today I learned that the electrical impulses in our brain are caused by Sodium and Potassium Ions moving between neurons, something called ‘Action Potential’

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gpnL TIL That Wild Bill Hickok once escaped being shot by waving his hand at onlookers behind a mounted gunman and yelling, “Don’t shoot him in the back; he is drunk.” The gunman wheeled his horse around, and before he realized he had been fooled, Hickok shot him through the temple.
dvLE TIL that there is a sport called Freestyle Canoeing
eQKg TIL that the years 1961 to 1972 are referred to as the “Golden Age of Hijacking” when more than 150 flights were hijacked in American airspace. At its peak aeroplanes were hijacked at a rate of nearly one per week
DDjY TIL in 2012 alone, 6500 US military veterans committed suicide, accounting to roughly 22 per day.
PYQ6V TIL in 1719 prisoners in Paris were offered freedom at the condition they would marry a prostitute and move to Louisiana.