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TIL every time you recall a memory, your brain distorts it a bit.

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ZpPWp TIL that Scientists observed a wild orangutan (‘Rakus’) locate a plant used in SE Asia for pain & inflammation, pluck & chew up its leaves, apply plant juices to an injury on its right cheek, and then use the chewed plant as a bandage. Photos showed his wound closed within a month without problems:
GdDE TIL Dolly Parton has a program that will mail your child a free age-appropriate book once a month from birth to age 5. No obligation, no catch, she just wants to make sure that every child has books.
lG4a TIL “outlaw” originally meant “outside the protection of the law” so you could rob or kill them without legal consequences.
WL TIL that Australia, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to send a team to every Olympic Games since their inception in 1896.
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