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TIL the brains of rats have a “random mode” that is switched on when they are in unfamiliar situations

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0w5Wp TIL country music artist Glen Campbell's heartbreaking song "I'm Not Gonna Miss You" was written for his wife after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Kre6 TIL - Both of Jack Black’s parents were satellite engineers, his mother having worked on/with the Hubble Space Telescope
KORmQ TIL that blue/green algae kills dogs
YRwA TIL that in the 1940s the FBI considered the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” to be communist propaganda due to its supposed subversive anti-capitalist/banking themes.
16Z9W TIL about The Twilight Zone Accident in 1982 where a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash decapitated actor Vic Morrow and two children who were on the ground, and injured six helicopter passengers.