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TIL Brain scanners can detect the brain making a decision 7 seconds before the person is aware of the choice, casting doubt upon the concept of “free will”

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6gaX TIL that it’s illegal for kids 16 and under in South Korea to play video games past midnight
59Qp TIL that the backgrounds of Batman The Animated Series were drawn on black paper instead of white to show a darker tone.
QpV9 TIL 19th Century actor Richard Mansfield was so convincing in a stage production of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Londoners flooded police with requests to investigate whether he was Jack the Ripper.
XEBdR TIL In 1961, a handful of the world's top scientists gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, to give Dolphins LSD. They noted as soon as the dolphin on LSD had contact with another intelligent mammal, it wouldn't shut up.
Z8wW4 TIL when The South's Gonna Do It Again by Charlie Daniels Band, a song about Southern rock, was used by the KKK, Daniels said "I'm damn proud of the South, but I sure as hell am not proud of the Ku Klux Klan. [..] It was not written to promote hate groups."