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TIL of room 641A- a secret room in an AT&T building that held secret equipment used to spy on citizens

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xAY0 TIL In 2012, A women pushed a man onto subway tracks and killing him because “He looked Muslim” and wanted to take revenge on 9/11
lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.
N7bZ1 TIL that it is impossible for a human to sneeze during sleep due to a bodily state known as REM Atonia as reflex signals are not communicated to the brain.
VMm1G TIL, disco music is a scientifically used “mild stressor” used in animal studies to assess the animals’ responses to stress.
4XJ5g TIL that in 2018, because of rising prices and bad conditions for open access articles, all German universities collectively didn't renew their contracts with Elsevier, the biggest publisher for scientific papers