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TIL that scientists can read dreams using brain scans.

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Mekym TIL that George Meegan walked from the southern tip of South America to the northernmost part of Alaska, an unbroken walk of 19,019 miles.
x6amb TIL of the Normandy Massacres, a series of killings committed against Canadian soldiers by Hitler Youth SS troops. Around 1-in-7 of Canadian deaths during the Battle of Normandy were executions.
XEJrr Today I learned that the last Rosie the Riveter was involuntarily laid off from her job at the age of 95 in 2014.
rRKko TIL of Elizabeth Shoaf. She was abducted by a sexual predator & held underground. Using her wit, she gained his trust & managed to get his phone. She text home & police traced it. They stupidly publicly released that she text home & the abductor heard it on the radio. Police saved her in time.
MejPB TIL Clarence Birdseye, inventor of frozen foods, had previously worked as a hunter for the US government. Seeking to find a cure for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Birdseye was assigned to collect small animals and search them for the ticks which transmitted the disease. He found nearly 4,500 ticks.