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TIL that scientists are and have been working on ways to record dreams. They have even recorded shapes through and other images through fMRI machines. One day soon, maybe we can record our dreams.

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6EWr8 TIL Plato wrote of the Ring of Gyges: A shepherd found a golden ring in a tomb in a cave, pocketed it, realized it could make him invisible, used it to seduce the queen, commit regicide, and become the new king.
Y7pGZ TIL Rum was a defacto currency in Australia
78VPZ TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.
X69P TIL that claiming you panicked because of an unwanted homosexual advance is a legitimate defense against a murder charge in Australia
N7RJE TIL the prosthetics in The Elephant Man (1980) were designed directly from body casts of Joseph Merrick (aka the Elephant Man) made in 1890 & preserved for 90 years in a hospital museum. The prosthetics were so acclaimed that audiences pressured The Oscars into creating the "Best Makeup" award