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GPS has become a staple on any smartphone, but how does it work? How Does Your Brain’s GPS Work?

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oAlr TIL the longest coma to be woken up from lasted 19 years.
NXgg8 TIL of the Eleusinian Mysteries- secret rituals of ancient Greece that spanned over two millennia. They involved a special drink (kykeon), visions, and conjuring of an afterlife. Discovered in Eleusinian temples were fragments of ergot (a fungus containing psychedelic alkaloids, pre-cursors to LSD).
1ax98 TIL about Chris Sevier, a Utah County man who sued the county commissioner for refusing to issue a marriage license for Sevier and his computer.
5rXQ TIL Bill Murray was paid $9,000 for his role in Wes Anderson’s Rushmore. He also gave Wes a $25,000 check to pay for a helicopter scene the that the studio wouldn’t finance
GR5N TIL Ray Bradbury believed we all wound up creating the dystopian future of Fahrenheit 451 anyway. “Stop talking on the telephone, stop talking on the stupid Internet. It’s a waste of time.”