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TIL that acting out during dreams may be an early indicator of brain disease.

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4x7X TIL A math professor had worked out an equation to calculate how long into a car journey it takes a child to ask: “Are we there yet?”
NBBQ TIL nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu exposed details of Israel’s nuclear capabilities to British press in 1986. Mossad agents abducted Vanunu from Rome and he was secretly taken to Israel and sentenced to 18 years on charges of treason and espionage following a secret trial.
DQAOp TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.
wLMeE TIL A Canadian teacher used his work issued laptop during a presentation to his Grade 6/7 class and “a picture of female genitalia from an internet ‘pop up’ was inadvertently projected onto the screen and was seen by students and an education assistant"
newWd TIL Phil Hartman, the voice of Troy McClure and the sleazy neighbour from Jingle All The Way, was murdered by his own wife