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TIL after being put up, any signs on route 1 pointing the way to Bolinas, CA have been torn down by local residents in an effort to keep the city hidden, which is only accessible by unmarked roads.

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P1Qyg TIL about a man under the pseudonym "Kirk Allen" who became deluded that a sci-fi book series was actually the story of his life. He filled in the blanks with elaborate details and hallucinated himself in those settings. He was treated by Robert Lindner, who himself became obsessed with the books.
bo5p TIL Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain’s sleep-wake clock.
P1KEe TIL: the 'I-I-I-I-I' from Groove is in the heart is sampled from Eva Gabor in Green Acres theme.
pYWW8 TIL that Pompeii Bodies are POP casts around the skeleton and Not the Actual Mummified Bodies preserved as it is due to eruption
NGGQ TIL that the guy in the cowboy hat saving lives at the Boston Marathon bombings today tried to kill himself in 2004 after hearing that his son was killed in Iraq.