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9kaD TIL Scientists have been developing a way to teach humans skills via functional magnetic resonance imaging, much in kind of the same way that Neo downloads skills in the movie “The Matrix”
e0Ppb TIL during a visit to Japan in 1932, Charlie Chaplin was nearly assassinated in an ultranationalist coup d'état. While the Prime Minister was assassinated in his residence, Chaplin likely survived because he was watching a sumo wrestling match with the Prime Minister's son.
b6oXp TIL the original signed manuscripts of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto were nearly lost in WWII when being transported for safekeeping to Prussia by train in the care of a librarian. The train came under aerial bombardment and the librarian escaped to a nearby forest with the scores hidden in his coat.
JYWK8 TIL the Dalai Lama released a spoken word album filled with mantras and new age music titled Inner World, earlier this month
5YOB9 TIL that Wilson the Volleyball from the movie Castaway was inspired when screenwriter William Broyles, Jr deliberately stranded himself for one week on an isolated beach in the Sea of Cortez in which a volleyball washed up on shore.