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TIL scientists have figured out how to transfer memories & erase certain memories from snails brains

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XE0wj TIL A man who summited Everest 12 times after recovering from shattered heels, has the last name "Cool"
DQ4lp TIL Agatha Christie wrote an unpublished book where she killed off Poirot because she hated him.
vZVx TIL that according to a treaty signed in 1796 the United States government “is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of [Muslims]”
wopp6 TIL that "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" got its English title from a transcriptionist nearly 200 years after it was written, and is not a translation of the hymn it originally used