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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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lKj5 TIL George Clooney suffered from Bell’s Palsy while he was in middle school. It only lasted for a year, but he was relentlessly harassed and heckled by his classmates.