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TIL An unexplained phenomenon in neuroscience is the discovery that electrical stimulation in temporal neocortex can cause neurosurgical patients to spontaneously experience memory retrieval. (2012)

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vPBQB TIL in 1985 the great-grandson of Oscar F. Mayer gave away his $1.4 million inheritance (adjusted for inflation) at age 26 to become an activist and academic expert, specializing in inequality, tax policy and hereditary wealth
X0PrE TIL that the reason that Mr. Rogers told viewer that he was feeding his fish as he was doing so was because a five-year-old fan who is blind was concerned that he wasn't, so he wanted to put her mind at ease.
N7XJQ TIL of the "Pompeii Masturbator:" a man who appears to have been forever immortalised in the midst of some personal time.
wL8B7 TIL that while the fictional Jon Snow knew nothing, the microbiologist John Snow traced the outbreak of cholera to Soho, London, in 1854, and inspired the overhaul of waste management systems around the world.
KYYO4 TIL: That a common anecdote for Japanese officers in World War 2 was that a soldiers life was worth one sen, five rin or the cost of mailing the draft notice