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TIL that Yanjaa Wintersoul, a26 year old polyglot, memorised the entire 2018 IKEA catalogue in a week. She stumbled across memorization techniques when trying to graduate her Bachelors degree program half the time and almost couldn't graduate high school as she had trouble memorising her Sciences.

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0d7MM TIL Oliver Stone started writing the screenplay for Platoon on July 4, 1976 after a fireworks display triggered his Vietnam War flashbacks.
R7GLa TIL that when the PS2 was being launched, it received special import regulations because of its GPU's capability to generate high quality images at high speeds, a shared trait with missile guidance systems.
R5d18 TIL about Arrow Air Flight 1285, a charter aircraft that crashed on takeoff in Gander, Canada. Killing 248 (+8 crew) US Army soldiers returning from a peacekeeping deployment. Prob Cause: thin ice/extra weight leading to stall.
ADk07 TIL every year, large parts of the North American western coastline turn milky white as millions of herring collectively spray thousands of gallons of semen over their spawning grounds to take part in one of the largest mass-fertilizations of the animal kingdom.
jNAnn TIL that all U.S. aircraft carriers are Nuclear Powered, meaning they can continuously sail for up to 25 years without needed to refuel.