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TIL REM sleep improves creativity by priming associative networks

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PYDxe TIL that you have about a 1/2000 chance of contracting fatal cancer from any one CT scan.
XyPD TIL a hero of the Harlem Hellfighters routed 36 Germans single-handedly, while rescuing a fellow soldier and suffering 22 wounds at Argonne Forest…then died 10 years later, as a destitute alcoholic, after being denied disability and a purple heart.
eQ8L TIL that a man tried to establish the Kingdom of North Sudan so that his daughter could be a princess.
Lk0E0 TIL In 1926 Poland sent the United States a birthday card. With 5 million signatures.
kJ591 TIL “Torn” by Natalie Imbruglia is actually a cover from the 1993 song “Brændt”by danish singer Lis Sørensen. Before Imbruglia’s version, two other covers were made by different musical projects.