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American actress Margaret Qualley at 70th Berlin International Film Festival. Today is her birthday.

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An audio version of the English Wikipedia article about the hippocampus as of September 2025.
The hippocampus is a major component of the brain of humans and many other vertebrates, playing important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation.

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