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re "How to Hack Your Brain to Remember Almost Anything"

Here's a TED talk from a journalist who got interested in a piece he was writing on the Intl Memory Competition, and then decided to learn the techniques himself that he was writing about, and ended up winning the competition.

https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do?language=en

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Living in Israel I can easily relate to the pineapple as being a status-symbol - here you could find them selling in the makolet for 30 Shekels easily. (That's about R140). And it won't even be a particularly large one either.

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