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TIL People With Lighter Colored Eyes May Have a Higher Level of AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder): More than Meets the Eye: Eye Color and Alcoholism

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X04Dr Today I learned that when Greg Daniels was hired for the Simpsons writing staff, he believed that the show was past its "glory years". This was in 1993.
LQYrd TIL: Your memories aren’t stored in a single place – Instead, they are reconstructed from different brain regions every time you recall them. Over time, repeatedly recalling a memory can make it more about how you last remembered it rather than the original event itself.
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