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TIL of the concept of Deja Reve. Deja Reve is the same as Deja Vu but instead of feeling that you've experienced an event once before, you instead feel you've dreamt of this event once before.

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R779 TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”
lvkB TIL that Greg Graffin, the lead singer of “Bad Religion”, also holds a PhD in zoology and is a biology professor at Cornell University.
J1KlB TIL Hawaiian pizza isn't Italian or American, but was invented by a Greek-born Canadian (Sam Panopoulos) inspired by Chinese sweet and sour flavours.
ndaG TIL Edmund McIlhenny, inventor of Tabasco sauce, did not consider his sauce to be a major accomplishment and made no mention of it in his autobiography toward the end of his life, nor was it mentioned in his obituary.
yQXge TIL: 53-year-old former Chicago Sun Times Publisher, James Tyree, died accidentally from an air embolism and the family won a ten million dollar wrongful death suit settlement.