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TIL that, during initial development, the producers of The Monkees television show had rejected Stephen Stills as a songwriter.

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D1NrP TIL that two MIT Scientists successfully planted a false memory into a mouse (Mouseception). When set in a certain box, the mouse freezes in terror, recalling that it receives a shock in this box, when this never happened. This research may lead to new treatments for Depression or Alzheimer's, etc.
VBWp TIL In retail slow music is played to keep you shopping and spend more; in restaurants fast music is played to speed up turnaround.
k8OW TIL Six weeks before JFK was murdered in Dallas, his Secret Service driver Tom Shipman died of a sudden heart attack in Camp David. This made room for William Greer. Greer didn’t accelerate the limousine after the first shot, instead he slowed the car down.
VQBQ TIL that NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds $600,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or nearly $100 billion per person alive.
WkxY9 TIL that although the Maya were already in decay when the Spanish arrived and therefore did not offer much resistance, the location of their civilization centers in the deep jungle made their last city survive until 1697.