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TIL that the bigger an animal’s brain, the longer it will yawn

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AN0gB TIL that in 2014 researchers at MIT conducted a study that found participants were capable of extracting a picture's conceptual meaning after viewing it for as short as 13 ms, meaning the maximum framerate the human eye can see is about 77 frames per second.
Depe TIL Congressman Hale Boggs was the only member of the Warren Commission who doubted the infamous “magic bullet” theory used to pin the JFK assassination solely on Oswald. In 1972, Boggs disappeared while flying in Alaska and the crash and his remains were never found.
L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”
Y7RgP TIL that next to a car dashboard's gas icon, there is an arrow that always points to the side the gas cap is on
8evDG TIL US Army’s 113th Military Intelligence unit used fake pizza deliveries to spy on reporters and politicians in the 1960s