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TIL our memories can be changed or even made up by suggestive information, which makes eyewitness accounts less trustworthy.

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nW5Mr TIL that the planet's average temperature compared to today was just 6°C (43°F) lower, during the last ice age, and 4°C (39°F) higher, during the age of the dinosaurs. "In climate terms, a change of just a few degrees is a big deal." (Bill Gates, 2021)
NXZXP TIL how Canada has a maple syrup emergency reserve, and that someone actually managed to pull off a heist on it
4Xe4X TIL of a woman known as Patient S.M, who has no amygdala, which is the part of the brain responsible for fear. As a result she is unable to feel fear or read negative social cues, and doesn't understand personal space. The only time she ever felt fear is when a test was held replicating suffocation.
9J0m TIL In 1848, the British East India Company sent Botanist Robert Fortune on a trip to China’s interior, an area forbidden to foreigners to steal tea seeds from China to India.He succeeded and within his lifetime, India surpassed China as the world’s largest tea grower.
6E1jl TIL Shortly after Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran from exile in 1979, he issued a fatwa ordering that Jews and other minorities (except Bahá'ís) be treated well. To this day, Jews are officially recognized and protected by the Iranian government.