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TIL that Déja Vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like its happened.

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7jEZ TIL that during the first four days of World War II pet-owners in London queued up at animal shelters to put down their dogs and cats. More than 400,000 animals died. There was no government order to do so; nor was there any economic need.
Brole TIL the Dyatlov pass mystery, one of worlds biggest mysteries, in which 9 Russian hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains due to strange and inexplicable injuries, was recently SOLVED after 60 years.
woV1o TIL of Alice Nutter, an English woman who was hanged after a 9 year old accused her of being a witch
8aVgP TIL that the heart can still beat outside the body for about 4 hours without medical intervention, that's because the heart is not regulated by the brain, the heartbeats are sparked by its own natural pacemaker.
VBMQp TIL that the original Rock Island Bridge was laid under a surveying party led by Robert E. Lee. When a steamboat collision happened, the bridge operators hired Abraham Lincoln to their defense.