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TIL "Anamnesis" is the idea that humans possess innate knowledge and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. The process of incarnation is described in Neoplatonism as a trauma that causes the soul to forget its experiences (and often its divine origins as well).

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e0Ogb TIL the gyroids in the Animal Crossing series are based on the Haniwa, terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead as funerary objects during the Kofun period (3rd to 6th centuries AD) of the history of Japan
Z8JOa TIL that Lucy Maud Montgomery stored her now-famous book Anne of Green Gables in a hat box after it was rejected by every publisher she sent it to. Years later she tried again, and the book has now sold 50 million copies.
Z6jY TIL France removes 900 tons of unexploded ordinance each year from the ‘No-Go Zone’. Farmers call it the 'Iron Harvest’.
ewxL TIL that Jackie Chan is a staunch supporter of China’s communist party, thinks Taiwanese democracy is “the biggest joke in the world,” and believes Chinese citizens need to be “controlled” through censorship, “otherwise they’ll do whatever they want.”
Egnjd TIL years before playing Dracula, Bela Lugosi had served as a lieutenant in World War I. At one point, he was helping protect a forest and left his post at a tree to give an officer first aid. When he came back, he found the tree to have been blown into many pieces and wept out of gratitude to God.