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TIL in 1895, Georges Polti proposed 36 general plotlines which categorise every dramatic situation that might occur in a story or performance.

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d80Pd TIL that rocking back and forth or moving in general activates the hippocampus while learning and memorizing things. Some people chew gum instead of the back and forth rock. Recall improves while moving and learning, and recalling things 5 times over a spread of days can burn in the working memory.
VBEEm TIL That a Quantum machine performed a very specialized computation in 200 seconds that would taken the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to solve.
kO6AW TIL a Thai man killed 8 people, including his brother in law, for constantly singing "Take Me Home, Country Roads" during Karaoke
awLgA TIL - that putting sugar in a gas tank does not ruin the engine, and is no worse than getting sand in the tank.
kODkW TIL that Vietnam actually kept the American Embassy in Saigon and gave it back to the USA when they returned in 1995, the USA decided to demolish it themselves in 1998.