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TIL the axolotl can regenerate its limbs and parts of its brain. Its genome is also 10 times larger than the human genome. Today, scientists study the axolotl as a model of limb regeneration in vertebrates. There are only about 1,000 left in the wild.

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kJLLE TIL Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day (December 25th) in England in 1642. However, a baby born on the same day in France would have a January 4th birthday because there were two competing calendars at the time.
gMo7L TIL: Scientists injected mouse pups with human glial cells. Within a year the human brain cells integrated and replaced over half of the natural cells. The mice developed supercharged intelligence- scoring much higher on cognitive & memory tests then their unaltered kin.
ebob TIL that some Koreans are trying to rename their country back to “Corea”. They believe that Japan changed the spelling to “Korea” so Japanese athletes would march first at the 1908 Olympics.
5VArD TIL that Junko Furuta, a kidnapping and murder victim, was upset that she would never see the last episode of Tonbo (Dragonfly とんぼ). Hiroshi Miyano stuffed a VHS of the episode in a concrete drum with her corpse, not out of remorse or regret, but because he did not want her to haunt him as a ghost
woVJY TIL that David Cronenberg has directed two films named "Crimes of the Future": One in 1970, and another in 2022. Apart from the title, the two films are completely different.