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Til Japanese researchers have devised a method of decoding dreams that can accurately tell what the patient had been dreaming about.

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E1pep TIL that a torturer in Communist Poland, Julia Brystiger, was famous for "whipping male genitals" of her victims, some of whom later died because of this.
1xk4 TIL there was an ancient Greek man named Gaius Appuleius Diocles whom was a famous chariot racer whose winning, adjusted for inflation, total $15,000,000,000 making him the highest paid athlete ever.
woNl6 TIL the second most heard (10M) song in the Lorax soundtrack is Biggering, which wasn't even in the movie. It was replaced for the most heard song (30M), How Bad Can It Be?
XGpE TIL: Platypuses have no teats, they secrete their milk through their pores.
Lk9lp TIL that while peacock mantis shrimp can see light ranging from deep UV to far IR (300-720nm), they can only discriminate wavelengths that are more than 25nm apart, the difference that separates orange and yellow, with humans being able to discriminate wavelengths that are only 1-4mm apart