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TIL The False Memory Foundation was created by parents who refused to believe their daughter's report of incest. She became a successful professional psychologist, author and researcher.

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grO68 TIL Bagpipes were played in countries and cultures far before the famously known Scotland Highlanders, with history placing them in 1000BC Anatolia, as well as in Thrace, Northern Africa and throughout Asia.
KObDG TIL The previously unknown glymphatic system was first described in 2012. Previously, scientists did not fully understand how the brain, which maintains its own closed ecosystem, removed waste. During sleep, a system of plumbing pumps cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) through the brain to wash away waste
GAg0Q TIL you're supposed to "de-vein" the shrimp before eating, meaning you have to remove its intestinal tract still filled with feces.
l7DR5 TIL that a series of early nuclear weapon tests known as Operation Plumbbob resulted in a test bore cover plate being launched with such force that a frame/millisecond camera only caught the cover on a single frame.
dDjwj TIL that in 1956, a man named Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane from New Jersey, flew it into Manhattan, and landed it in front of a bar as part of a drunken bet. Two years later, he did it again for the same bet