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TIL the brain can form false memories that feel as real and emotionally intense as true ones, activating the same brain regions and becoming resistant to correction once established.

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j6PpN TIL: An elephant jumped off a suspension railway in 1950 and survived the 10m drop into a shallow stream
Eg18d TIL the movie Saw (2004) was shot in just 18 days with a budget under a million dollars, and grossed more than $100 million at the box office.
Bg4xL TIL that there is such a thing as a Mountain Chicken. It is not a Chicken. It is, in fact, a kind of frog.
4Kga TIL that manmade air pollution is the cause of more than two million deaths every year globally
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