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TIL Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast wasn't widely believed but was remade for Ecuador where it mobilized police and military. When the hoax was uncovered a mob burned down the radio station, tragically killing 6 employees that may not have even known it was happening.

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Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.
yvEv TIL John Adams once said that if we learned there was no God or life after death, we should all just take a bunch of opium.
9YExM TIL Squeezing testicles too hard can kill a man. Stay Safe guys.
9YrNX TIL only three people in the nation were qualified to hand-pack the parachutes for Apollo 15. Their expertise was so vital, they were not allowed to ride in the same car together for fear that a single auto accident could cripple the space program.
8eLw8 TIL director and writer of A Knight's Tale, Brian Helgeland, said that he intended to show what Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) might have been doing that inspired him to write The Canterbury Tales during the six months in which he seems to have gone missing in 1372.