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TIL scientists implant false memories in mice while they sleep to influence their behavior when they wake up

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rWxw TIL that a Roman woman in the Netherlands was buried in a sarcophagus decorated to look like her house… from the inside.
b8jE TIL redheads experience pain differently from other people (more sensitive to some types of pain, less to others) because of their genetic makeup; they are also slightly less responsive to anaesthetics.
5XVp TIL the largest mall in the world by gross leasable area is in China - and it’s 99% empty
VMrE8 TIL, the Monterey Cyprus only grows in two small regions near Carmel and Monterey CA. At one point it was a part of a larger forest that extended to the continental shelf.
oBbr7 TIL that the electricity-generating 'dynamos' on bikes are actually called magnetos because they output alternating current.