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TIL Source amnesia is the inability to remember where, when or how previously learned information has been acquired, while retaining the factual knowledge. Source amnesia has caused issues in court when people used outside information in their own testimony and musicians accidentally plagiarized.

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g5yL TIL that exercising makes you both more productive and happier for the day that you exercise. It affects your brain function and memory, and the positive effect lasts for the entire day.
1aBkd TIL the Greenland Shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrates, living for at least 300-400 years. A sample captured in 1952 was concluded to have been born between 1504 and 1744.
VE8k TIL a Japanese comedian was tricked into a real-life “Truman show” when he accepted a job which (unbeknownst to him) would lock him into an apartment, naked and cut off from everything and film him, without his knowledge. He gained possessions only thru entering hundreds of sweepstakes.
JJM1 TIL: 2,000-year-old seeds were discovered in 1963 inside an ancient jar in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted.
Me0GK TIL that in 1212 some twelve year old named Stephen de Cloyes thought it would be a fucking brilliant idea to retake the Holy Land with an army of children. They trusted complete strangers to sail them to Jerusalem. They all either got sold as slaves or ended up at the bottom of the Mediterranean.