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TIL napping after a learning session leads to significantly better recall rate of the learned material one week later

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Gnj TIL that “Jupiter is the solar system’s vacuum cleaner, pulling in meteors and comets. Scientists estimate that if it was not for this amazing fact, the number of these objects hitting earth would be about ten thousand times greater.”
EBP0 TIL there is a US Navy ship named after a mountain, which was named after a president: the USS Mount McKinley
LkxGQ TIL Paul Newman, while attending a small college in central Ohio, began a laundry service out of his dorm room. Newman’s Laundry and Dry Cleaning Service was a success, earning the young entrepreneur the nickname “The Laundry Man of T-Barracks” in 1949.
yREw TIL when composer Frédéric Chopin was on his death bed he asked that when he died his body be cut open and the heart removed to be buried in his homeland of Poland. Upon his death, his sister smuggled the heart out of France, delivering it to the Church of the Holy Cross in Warsaw.
Yx67 TIL Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse where the abuser manipulates situations repeatedly to trick the victim into distrusting his or her own memory and perceptions.