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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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loEdV TIL about Haing S. Ngor - a Cambodian doctor who was sent to a Khmer Rouge concentration camp in 1975, was tortured for 4 years, escaped in 1979, won an Oscar in 1985, wrote an acclaimed memoir in 1988, started a charity in 1990, and was murdered by an LA gang in 1996.
4kpyX TIL In 2013, Seth MacFarlane, creator of Family Guy, contributed a collection of Carl Sagan's personal documents to the Library of Congress. Sagan was a source of childhood inspiration for MacFarlane, which prompted MacFarlane's involvement in the Cosmos revival in 2014 and upcoming documentary
aw1EA TIL that Alexander alekhine the great chess player was forced to play a match to decide his fate . If he lost he would have been executed. He won !
8a4bP TIL that more than 30 Roman emperors (out of ~86) were erased from monuments by decree of the Senate, as a way to erase the names of disgraced individuals from public memory
5Ze9 TIL Māori tribal groups from New Zealand complained to LEGO as their language was heavily used in the Bionicle line of toys