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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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grjdX TIL that the Pubic Wars was a rivalry between Playboy and Penthouse magazines in the 60s and 70s to gradually show more pubic hair on their models without drawing obscenity charges. The “war” ended when Hustler magazine launched and immediately showed more graphic photographs.
4aGb TIL Toys R Us has a global anti-union and no-negotiation policy in effect everywhere - except in Sweden
Oo1yL Pregnancy cravings don't happen in every culture.
OoM77 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant not only created the Department of Justice, he also supported the Fifteenth Amendment and asked Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1871, allowing him to combat and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.
kJ67W TIL about the Spiegel affair, 1962 West German political incident in which the country's Minister of Defense arrested the chief editor of a magazine for writing an article critical of the nation's military.