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TIL when you imagine something, you are using the same brain processes as when you remember something, which is why it's so easy to misremember things, or why some people confuse what they've imagined with what is real.

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RLNQ TIL that on April 18th, 1930 (Good Friday) the BBC announced that the world was indeed “Good” and there was nothing worth reporting in the news.
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