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TIL that humans have "volitional control" over their memory: we can use directed forgetting to actively suppress unwanted information and directed remembering to prioritize important details,

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epeNL TIL Despite having possessed four colonies in Africa, Italy teaches its language in only one Eritrean school
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0wgrL TIL about Harry Wilhelm, an unemployed veteran who memorized the entire US Constitution during the Great Depression. Rep. Sol Bloom bet he couldn't recite it perfectly. When Wilhelm proved him wrong, Bloom immediately gave him a job.
v1bdD TIL about Jack London. Oyster pirate, Socialist, and rail rider. Berkeley attendee, trekked the Yukon and Chilkoot Pass, took a rowboat 1500 miles down the Yukon River to the Bering Sea. Built his own yacht and mansion and wrote 23 novels, 7 plays, short stories, and poems. Died of alcoholism age 40
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