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TIL Your reality is 15 seconds in the making: When you really focus your attention on something, you’re said to be “in the present moment.” But research suggests that the “present moment” is actually a chunk of the recent past, and it’s about 15 seconds long.

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p8lAN TIL in the "The Famous Five" books, published in 1942, there is a 11-year-old character named Georgina who is a tomboy and demands that people call her "George". She often gets cross when anyone calls her by her real name and loves it when somebody mistakes her for a boy.
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