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TIL researchers recorded the brain waves of a dying person, they showed patterns similar to those occurring during memory recall. (blog.frontiersin.org)

Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during...

TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop (e360.yale.edu)

TIL that the album "Songs for the Deaf" by Queens of the Stone Age has a hidden track before Track #1 (en.m.wikipedia.org)

TIL in New York you can apply to have a fire hydrant opened during hot weather (www.theguardian.com)

TIL about Hector the Convector a thunderstorm and cloud system that forms nearly every afternoon from September to March in the Northern Territory of Australia (en.wikipedia.org)

Named by pilots during the Second World War, the recurring position of the thunderstorm made it a navigational beacon for pilots and mariners in the region. A mesoscale phenomenon, Hector is caused primarily by a collision of several sea breeze boundaries across the Tiwi Islands and is known for its consistency and intensity....

TIL - "Mage" derives from Magush, the old persian name for Zoroastrian priests, which means "Fire worshipper" (en.wikipedia.org)

Wasn’t actually today, but it’s an interesting etymology. Old Arabian speaks “majus” because they lack a hard G sound, similar to Japanese lacking L sound...

TIL about ‪a flower which is called “naked man orchid”. (feddit.de)

TIL: Most glass used today is float glass (en.m.wikipedia.org)

Liquid glass is poured over a bath of liquid tin where it floats on top, gradually cooling until it can be lifted off, annealed to prevent cracking, cut and packaged....

TIL there was a third founder of Apple. He sold his 10% of the company for $800 worried that his assets could be seized by creditors if the company failed (www.cnbc.com)

TIL The first recorded human death by robot was in 1979 when 25-year-old Ford Motor assembly line worker Robert William was struck by an arm of a malfunctioning one-ton robot (www.wikiwand.com)

Williams was one of three operators of the parts retrieval system, a five-story robot built by the Unit Handling Systems division of Litton Industries. The robot was designed to retrieve castings from high density storage shelves at the Flat Rock plant. Part of the machine included one-ton transfer vehicles, which were carts on...

TIL some species of ants farm aphids like we do cows (www.mcgill.ca)

Link: www.westcoastseeds.com/…/do-ants-farm-aphids....

TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbita... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL fermilab had a ferret to find obstructions in their particle accelerator in the 1960s (news.fnal.gov)

TIL Legionnaires' disease (form of walking pneumonia) got its name from an outbreak at an American Legion convention (99percentinvisible.org)

TIL that shocking gum was used as a torture device in Iraqi prison. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL the notion that lactic acid is the reason we experience muscle soreness after a workout has been debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests the soreness is a result of a cascade of physiological ... (www.pfizer.com)

TIL during the early days of the internet, companies tried to prohibit linking to some of their sites. The linked site linked to all of them during half of 2002 (web.archive.org)

In one of the even more absurd cases: According to an AP report (cited in Slashdot), Intentia International has filed criminal charges against Reuters PLC, alleging that the news service illegally obtained an earnings report that the company had not yet released, by guessing the URL at which it had been posted on Intentia's...

TIL - Henry Ford built a failed community called “Fordlândia” in Brazil, he planned it as an industrial utopia. (99percentinvisible.org)

TIL Boeing, NASA, and United Airlines test sustainable aviation fuel (innovationorigins.com)

TIL Tupac Shakur was considered for the role of Mace Windu in the Prequel Star Wars trilogy. (en.wikipedia.org)

From the Wiki: According to former Death Row Records chief engineer Rick Clifford, George Lucas was eyeing Tupac to star in his return to the “Star Wars” saga. Lucas had asked Jackson to ask Shakur to audition but due to Shakur’s untimely death the role ultimately went to Samuel L. Jackson. The character’s bald...

TIL: The average single male changes his sheets just four times a year. (www.cbc.ca)

Watch out ladies, the man of your dreams may have the bed of your nightmares.

TIL Disney refused to let a father use a Spiderman headstone for his 4 year old son’s funeral. (www.bbc.com)

Disney is asked to show some compassion over the use of Spider-Man’s image on a child’s grave.

TIL about the 1957 Kyshtym disaster in the USSR, where improperly stored nuclear waste exploded and created the third-worst peacetime nuclear incident in history. It was kept secret until 1976. (en.wikipedia.org)

To make it worse, before they decided to store the nuclear waste, they’d just dump it into the river, which was used as drinking water by thousands of people. Again, kept secret.

TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza” (www.foxbusiness.com)

Chuck E. Cheese is now selling pizza under a different brand.

TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content (en.wikipedia.org)