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TIL of Neuroscientist Benjamin Libet’s idea of consciousness that is sometimes called “Free Won’t”: that our unconscious makes all our decisions for us, and the only free will we have is to “veto” its choices

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VMnPZ TIL Some visitors to Jerusalem go psychotic in the same chilling ways: ditching their family to wander the city alone, preaching sermons at holy sites, obsessing over cleanliness, wearing togas, and shouting scripture. Affects all faiths.
P19DJ TiL it was Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" that popularized the expression "Merry Christmas".
kZr1 TIL that Lemmy Kilmister co-wrote Ozzy Osbourne’s hit song “Mama I’m Coming Home,” stating that he made more royalties from that song than in 15 years in Motorhead
6k5X TIL Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were US citizens who were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union in 1953.
9YVwr TIL that Action Park, a New Jersey theme park which opened in 1978, was infamous for being poorly constructed, with at least six guests killed by the rides. It featured a water slide which was closed after only a month, and which supposedly decapitated a crash test dummy during safety testing.