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TIL Scientists in Japan have found a way to visualize images from dreams using MRI scans

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yx0v TIL that an engineer at NASA spent fifteen years trying to become an astronaut, being rejected fourteen times before finally being selected in 1998.
8arxP TIL In 1962, Decca Records turned down a band auditioning with them, by saying "guitar groups are on the way out". The band they turned down: the Beatles, who later sold more than 600 million albums worldwide.
xkN1 TIL a nutrition professor went on a 10-week long diet of mostly Twinkies, Nutty bars, Powdered donuts, Doritos, Oreos, and sugary cereals. He lost 27 lbs, his cholesterol markers improved, and his bodyfat dropped by 10%.
VBdV8 TIL that earthworms have "completely scrambled" genomes, and belong to the taxonomic class Clitellata.
d8JY9 TIL that in Idaho there is an anonymous "Secret Santa" that has for the last several years given away $500,000 per year in cash and gifts to people that do amazing things in the community around them.