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TIL déjà rêvé is a feeling similar to déjà vu, except instead of feeling like you’ve previously experienced an event in real life, you feel like you previously experienced it in a dream.

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grLk9 TIL about Francesco Maria Carafa, a Italian nobleman who was tried when he died after being imprisoned, and actually won
Ne61 TIL That as a child Ringo Starr had such poor health he was committed to a sanatorium for two years. When he got out at age 13, he was so far behind in school that he never went back.
9Ykr6 TIL that in 1938, Henry Ford was awarded Nazi Germany's Grand Cross of the German Eagle. That is the medal awarded to foreigners sympathetic to Nazism.
Rxx8 TIL: In 2011 drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to death like gladiators. The survivors would be informed of new purpose in life as assassins for gang.
woGeW TIL that in the 60's they had pacemakers with RTG's in them, a type of nuclear battery that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity.