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TIL Raw Oysters Are Still Alive When You Eat Them

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rEkw TIL that high dream recallers have stronger brain activity in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) and in Temporo-perietal Junction (TPJ); this makes them wake up many times during sleep and enables them to remember dreams more efficiently than low dream recallers.
oAlr TIL the longest coma to be woken up from lasted 19 years.
Lk5RZ TIL about Danish artist Thomas Dambo who creates giant wooden sculptures and hides them in the forests of Copenhagen
Yp4AP TIL that a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed a Wendy's in 2005
aXQM TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”