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TIL What Really Happens When You Dream?&Why Do We Dream?

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Rbe1 TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male (Gary Kasporov).
jkWE TIL there is actually a pepper hotter than the Ghost Chili. The new record holder is called the Carolina Reaper, and rates an average of 1,569,300 Scoville units.
NnJ TIL 20% of the entire world’s unfrozen freshwater is in a single lake.
xVnWw TIL The giant clam (Tridacna gigas), also called the "bear's paw", is the largest mollusk; it can reach a length of 1.2 m and a weight of more than 227 kg and have an average lifespan in the wild of over 100 years.
nVd TIL Bob Ross donated all of the paintings from the TV shows to PBS stations across the country