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TIL broccoli stems contain just as many nutrients as the whole broccoli

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4rWJ TIL Walt Disney’s body was NOT cryonically frozen, but rather cremated on December 17, 1966, and his ashes interred at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
nWkbW TIL the Monty hall problem, where it is better for the contestant to switch from their initial choice to another, caused such a controversy that 10,000 people, including 1,000 PhDs wrote in, most of them calling the theory wrong.
QNWgd TIL sleep helps clean our brain. Or in the words of the journal Science, “Observations showed that when mice sleep, channels between neurons in their brains expand, allowing cerebrospinal fluid to flush out detritus, such as proteins that in human beings are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.”
EaMp TIL that Detective Pryzbylewski was the only officer in the Series “The Wire” to discharge a firearm in the shows entirety
4kkM6 TIL about Ocular Herpes Simplex Keratitis. This is HSV of the eyes. While 1/3 of humans have genital HSV, about 1.4M people have OHSK. Also, Keratitis is the #1 cause of cornea-related blindness.