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TIL a scientific study published in 2021 showed making memories actually involves breaking our DNA, then repairing them. When DNA repairs go wrong, it can lead to neurodegeneration and cognitive decline

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lZ11 TIL teenagers Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta spent 2 years recreating the entire movie “Toy Story” shot-for-shot using stop-motion and marionette puppetry. The project required making two rooms in Pauley’s parent’s house into the ‘Toy Story’ set and repurposing toys from Goodwill. [Video in link]
96DQ TIL that during the 70s one suicide jumper from the Golden Gate Bridge had a note that read “I’m going to walk to the bridge. If one person smiles at me on the way, I will not jump.”
1XlO TIL that the Fallout drug Med-X was originally called Morphine, but was renamed to avoid a ban of the game in Australia.
707L TIL at a Marine Mammal Studies Institute, dolphins were trained to turn in trash that fell into the pools in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide pieces of paper under a rock, tearing off smaller pieces from the paper in order to get more fish out of it.
vk8r TIL that the production crew for the Rugrats cartoon would often create extremely graphic and lewd storyboards for faux episodes as in-jokes. One such storyboard involved Tommy having sex with his parents.