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TIL that methamphetamine improves snails’ long-term memories and also prevents them from forgetting already learned ones.

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Z8j5G TIL Plastic wrap will help slow bananas down from ripening
X00d8 TIL French secret service agents bombed the Greenpeace ship "Rainbow Warrior in order to stop Greenpeace from disrupting underwater nuclear testing in 1985.
VMoJm Today I learned "Sudoku" was actually originally invented by an American architect named "Howard Garns" in 1979, baring the name "Number Place"
N7wWN TIL of Ahmed Shah Massoud, an Afghan guerrilla leader who warned the US of an imminent large-scale terrorist attack on their soil. He was assassinated by al-Qaeda two days before 9/11.
YKrr TIL that on an island in Indonesia, if a child dies before he has started teething, the baby is placed inside the trunk of a growing tree. The hole is then sealed and as the tree begins to heal, the child is believed to be absorbed. Dozens of babies may be interred within a single tree.