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TIL Google made an AI that converts text into music

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b6JKN TIL a "misconception in much of psychology is that [...] 'newer' brain structures were added over existing 'older' brain structures [e.g. reptilian]"; rather, "all vertebrate behavior" is based on "decision-making circuits", and "the prefrontal cortex [...] is not a uniquely human structure"
xJ7 TIL Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Stuka pilot, flew 2,530 combat missions claiming a total of 2,000 targets destroyed; including 800 vehicles, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, one Soviet battleship, 70 landing craft, 4 armored trains, several bridges and nine aircraft.
loPM5 TIL that one of the reasons the Cottingley Fairies photos weren't revealed as fake for so long (over 60 years) was because the girls who took them didn't want to make a fool out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who had believed they were real and wrote about the fairies as a psychic phenomenon
6wBl TIL a New Zealand teen set a friend on fire as a prank. In his defense he stated “If he’d stopped, dropped and rolled, it would have just been a joke instead of a serious incident.”
nWpgo TIL about how the Vikings used the sod roof as an insulator method, it helped keeping their houses warm at winter and cold in the summer, it also helped prevent fires and floods.