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TIL Dreams are caused by the random firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex during the REM period. The forebrain then creates a story in an attempt to reconcile and make sense of the nonsensical sensory information presented to it.

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DQ9dY TIL light bulbs used to last longer over a hundred years ago!
LB8Z TIL in 1994 a US Soldier in Germany decapitated his friend and brought the head to his cheating wife in the hospital who was pregnant with the other man’s baby.
LQoDr TIL that owning "The Guy Game" is considered illegal, due to one of the actors being underage and having explicit scenes.
AD5gn TIL when Stan Lee was designing Spider-Man, his publisher told him "Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard. First of all, people hate spiders, so you can’t call a book Spider-Man. Secondly he can’t be a teenager—teenagers can only be sidekicks. And third, he can’t have personal problems.
80rG TIL Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician in Israel and anti WMD activist leaked a photograph to the British press of evidence Israel had nuclear weapons. He was later tracked by Mossad, drugged, bound, thrown in a bag and renditioned to Israel for trial.