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How black cab drivers memorise every road in London

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The Benefits of Sleep

In 2006, Matthew Walker conducted an MRI study to investigate the effects of an all-nighter on learning. Good sleep, associative learning and spaced repetition are three incredibly powerful memory boosting tactics. To see how great Tom's memory really is, I asked him to call a random route that he just thought up from Paddington to Battersea. Here's how he does.

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