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TIL that just thinking about a location activates mental maps in the brain

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d8N6B TIL Gustaw Herling wrote a book in 1951 entitled A World Apart about the two years he spent in the Soviet gulag, and that the book ends with letters from prominent Communists assuring westerners that these camps don't exist.
E1A6p TIL that NASA thought Sally Ride needed 100 tampons for a week in space "just to be safe."
x6aJ1 TIL that the 1980 miles of Alaska’s Yukon River is only crossed by 4 bridges. By comparison, the slightly longer Mississippi River is has more than 132 bridges.
VBkP0 TIL Charles “Black Bart” Boles was an American outlaw who committed 28 successful stage coach robberies entirely on foot between 1875 and 1883, as he was afraid of horses. He also reportedly never once fired a weapon during his years as an outlaw.
kOvJW TIL US has 15.3 million millionaires, i.e. 4.7% of the population