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TIL Reading in dreams is impossible because reading and dreaming belong to different parts of the brain, which don't cooperate while dreaming.

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NXQlP TIL Fred Gwynne [a.k.a. Herman Munster] wrote and illustrated children’s books. He once said the only thing he ever dreamed of being was a portrait artist.
N5M8 TIL that in 1864, Karl Marx wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln to congratulate him on being re-elected and for fighting the “American Antislavery War”.
DGrJ TIL even though Calculus is often taught starting only at the college level, mathematicians have shown that it can be taught to kids as young as 5, suggesting that it should be taught not just to those who pursue higher education, but rather to literally everyone in society.
PYaJL TIL that an English inventor invented a thermal shielding material, called Starlite, which was able to withstand extreme heat (10,000 degrees C), but never revealed its composition in fear of reverse engineering and losing control of rights to the material.
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