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TIL that Scientists, for the first time, were able to selectively erase unwanted memories in mice and rats.

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R7XWj TIL We are still evolving more and more humans are born with an extra artery in the arm
R71Qa TIL the 2013 NASA Astronaut class, which had 4 men and 4 women, is nicknamed the "8-balls"
4kODb TIL that from 2009 to 2019, out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents only 48 people were rescued.
gM9y7 TIL A college math professor wrote a fantasy "novel" workbook to teach the fundamentals of calculus. Concepts are taught through the adventures of a man who has washed ashore in the mystic land of Carmorra and the hero helps people faced with difficult mathematical problems
Pp5w TIL in Iran it is forbidden for women to ride traditional bicycles in the belief that it is a sexual stimulant and “causes corruption". Women riders are attacked by vigilantes. The Iranian version of the Islamic bicycle has a “boxy contraption that hides a woman’s lower body.”