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TIL Brandenn E. Bremmer was a child prodigy who taught himself how to read at 18 months and began playing the piano at 3. He completed high school at age 10 and committed suicide at 14.

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YpaZA TIL that ants will heal other ants after raids and that mortally wounded ants will refuse treatment.
QNywE TIL that in South Africa traffic lights are called “robots”
kO1R5 TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, where dumb people tend to over-estimate their own intelligence, when in fact they’re not even competent enough to recognize their own ineptitude.
6nxJ TIL Bears eat things that don’t digest to plug their rectum during hibernation. The result is a very painful BM in the springtime.
MlmK TIL there was a crazy theory that the half-brother of Japan’s first Shogun survived the Shogun’s wrath after being seen as a political threat, and escaped to Mongolia. There he settled and changed his name to Genghis Khan.