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TIL the experience of walking into a room and forgetting exactly what you came in there to do is called the Doorway Effect. Walking through an open door and entering a new room creates a "mental block" in our brains and resets the memory to make room for the creation of new memories.

PYKkE TIL a 34-yr-old French-UK woman named Emma Perrier was catfished by a 53-yr-old UK man who was using a 35-yr-old Turkish model's photos. She tracked down the real model, Adem Guzel, they hit it off via FaceTime; about a year later, he flew to London and they became a couple.
8eAbV TIL about Sacoglossans, otherwise known as 'solar-powered sea slugs', that are incorporating living chloroplasts from their food source into their tissues to camouflage, otherwise called 'kleptoplasty'. And also that they're unique species apart of protists to do so.
J15Mj TIL a sheep was discovered in Australia in 2021 with 78 pounds of wool after living in the bushlands for 5 years.
dN0K TIL Charles Darwin wasn’t the first choice to go on the voyage in which he theorized the Theory of Evolution. He got the spot because other candidates turned down the captain’s invitation. Meanwhile, the captain just wanted a travel buddy because commanding a ship was very stressful and lonely.
epAoE TIL Dutch sailors were responsible for the extinction of the dodo, They hunted the dodo for food and sport, introduced invasive predators like rats and cats that ate the dodo eggs and chicks, and destroyed the dodo’s habitat by deforestation and farming.