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TIL Pat Robertson and several others who incorrectly predicted various dates for the end of world were jointly awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for “teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations”

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XEDwQ TIL scientists made a mouse utopia called Universe 25. It started with 4 males and 4 females, peaked at 2200 mice, then declined to extinction - the mice lost instinctual behavors. Humans now demonstrate similar traits.
oPvL TIL The Vatican purchased enough carbon offsets for the enitre Papal city in 2007. To this day, the promised planting of a “Vatican forest” has not happened.
XvZr TIL of Danny Casolaro… an investigative journalist who was working to uncover a secret group controlling the CIA, White House, etc. Despite telling friends and family that if he is found dead, it wouldn’t be a suicide, he was found dead after meeting with an unknown source.
Bre4r TIL some blind people can understand speech that is almost three times faster than the fastest speech sighted people can understand. Research suggests that a section of the brain that normally responds to light is re-mapped in blind people to process sound.
ADEVl TIL: Tibetan Monks spend weeks/months carefully "pouring" colored sand to make a very detailed and complex museum-worthy artwork that is known as the "Sand Mandala". Once complete, these intricate paintings are then ritualistically destroyed and that symbolizes the Buddhist belief of impermanence.