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TIL REM sleep improves creativity by priming associative networks

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Meo60 TIL that in 1975, three men were wrongfully convicted of murder. Their conviction was solely based on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who claimed he’d seen them commit the crime. They were only fully exonerated in 2014, when the boy- now an adult, recanted his testimony.
Rwx9 TIL that a study of film-goers heart rates shows that the “Here’s Johnny!” scene from The Shining is the scariest moment in film. Over entire movies, “The Exorcist” is the scariest, sending pulses up by 25.9% on average.
QNgQp TIL it is possible to kill yourself in your sleep. This condition is called parasomnia pseudo-suicide
xY0k TIL: The 2008 Housing Crisis Displaced More Americans than the 1930’s Dust Bowl
nWWmb TIL that in 1934, a German man named Gerhard Zucker attempted to deliver mail by loading it onto a rocket and firing it at a Scottish island. Both times he attempted this, the rocket exploded and much of the mail was destroyed.