/r/todayilearned
TIL: that the "Immortal Jellyfish" (Turritopsis dohrnii) can revert to its juvenile form after reaching maturity, effectively starting its life cycle over again. This unique ability allows it to bypass death from old age, though it can still be killed by disease or predation.
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TIL, in 2021, a scientific study found that people’s heartbeats synchronise when they are listening to and paying attention to the same story - even if they are listening to the story by themselves.
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TIL that when a cat bites you "out of the blue" or lashes out at you unprovoked it might be because of something it saw outside the window even hours before. This is called redirected aggression.
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TIL that the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would effectively convert the US presidential election to a popular vote, dispensing with the electoral college, has 77% of the EVs necessary to become law with another 20% pending.
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Cliff Robertson, best known as Uncle Ben in the original Spiderman movie, was flying over the Twin Towers when the first plane struck on 9/11
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