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TIL that in an experiment done on mice with Alzheimer's, exposing them to lights flickering at 40hz for an hour, reduced the beta-amyloid plaques in their brains by 50%.

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ADppB TIL due to a typo the wrong type of kitty litter was used during a nuclear materials containment. This caused an explosion and more than $2B in cleanup.
5YG5B TIL the first Legoland theme park built outside of Europe was in Carlsbad, California.
pbeA TIL That The World Championship in Monopoly has been held fourteen times, last time in 2015 and won by italian Nicolò Falcone. The grand prize was $20,580 USD, which is also the amount of money included in a set of Monopoly.
0Zkj TIL that in 1975, the Food and Drug Administration ruled that Pringles cannot legally call themselves “Potato chips” because they’re not made from sliced potatoes. Also, in the UK, the company tried to argue that Pringles weren’t chips (“crisps” in the UK) because chips are subject to a 17.5% VAT
dDE69 TIL after Space Invaders received an officially licensed port to the Atari 2600 in 1980, its availability on the console quadrupled the system's sales.