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TIL hallucinations can occur in any sensory modality—visual (sight), auditory (sound), olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), tactile (touch), equilibrioceptive (balance), nociceptive (harm), thermoceptive (temperature), and chronoceptive (time).

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J1jD4 TIL Pac-Man's colour choice was inspired by the yellow used in LEGO bricks
Rlp8 TIL that it is estimated that the wealth of the royal Saudi family is around 1,4 trillion dollars.
9wV1D TIL the founder of an AI girlfriend app, Replika, was inspired by a dystopian Black Mirror episode where a woman resurrects her dead boyfriend with AI, which goes horribly wrong.
0wQmN TIL Despite publishing vast quantities of literature only three Mayan books exist today due to the Spanish ordering all Mayan books and libraries to be destroyed for being, "lies of the devil."
4Xleb TIL that around 80% of money in the economy is just a bunch of zeros and ones (i.e digital)