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Fun and interesting facts from around the web


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- Your brain can form new memories while you are asleep, neuroscientists show (The Washington Post)
- How the tongue keeps its tastes straight (Eureka Alert)
- Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero (New Scientist)
- In Victorian Britain the crowds approved of sports doping — with cocaine (The Conversation)
- Drug that spans the ages: The history of cocaine (The Independent)
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