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TIL Scientists are developing a method of erasing negative emotional memories (like a break-up) using mild electric shocks.

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MenVK TIL The spike on the German Pickelhaube helmet was supposed to function as a blade tip, designed to deflect sword blows aimed at the head. The Pickelhaube offered almost no protection from bullets & shrapnel to German soldiers during WWI.
jmQX TIL Brazilian doctors have begun using tilapia skin to treat severe burns because it is more soothing and less painful to change than traditional gauze.
RJJ9 TIL The Last VCRS were produced in July of 2016
nelA7 TIL a park project in Los Angeles, named Hollywood Central Park, is proposed to be built atop the 101 freeway as a cap, creating 44 acres of recreational land for the community and essentially turning a mile of the freeway below into a tunnel.
XEYAQ TIL that the sound used when planes are going down and crashing in films is the sound of a siren fitted onto a Nazi dive bomber. The siren was fazed out towards the end of the war since the siren had considerable drag and the pilots hated having to listen to the whine during the entire flight.