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TIL that long-term couples develop interconnected memory systems.

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xo65 TIL that the world’s longest movie, “The Cure for Insomnia”, is a video of a man reading out a 4000-page poem over the course of 3 days
booa TIL PeTA boycotted Liam Neeson’s movie because it depicted gray wolves in a negative light
7rxmb TIL the idea for the ATM cash machine came about when its inventor, John Shepherd-Barron, took a bath after his bank branch had closed for the day and was inspired by chocolate bar vending machines
neV8b TIL The town of Shitterton, England, kept getting its town sign stolen. In 2010, they finally solved the problem by installing a 1.6 tonne concrete slab with the town name inscribed on it.
e01w6 TIL of the "Vegetable Lamb of Tartary", a myth from the Middle Ages about a plant that sprouted sheep instead of fruit. For hundreds of years people would write about & even draw this wool-covered plant. We now know what it was: the cotton plant.