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TIL : TIL a female reporter attempted to recreate the famous novel "Around The World In 80 Days". Not only did she complete it with eight days to spare, she made a detour to interview Jules Verne, the original author.

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8aAnL TIL napping after a learning session leads to significantly better recall rate of the learned material one week later
wL8b8 TIL there are some people who can't visualize things in their minds, so when asked to imagine something, they only see the blackness of their eyelids. These people, sufferers of "aphantasia", can't believe and/or understand the majority of us can, in fact, picture things vividly with our mind's eye.
dweB TIL George Clooney once cleaned his roommate’s cat’s litter box for four days, then shit in it himself, causing the roommate to think it was from his constipated cat.
Brx8y TIL that most post-war homes build in Japan are practically disposable: they have almost no resale value and typically last no longer than 30 years,
0wgy1 TIL the CIA planned a false flag attack to justify war with Cuba but was rejected by JFK.