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TIL that "Neurorealism" is a fallacy in science where people ascribe too much faith in psychological phenomenon merely because it is backed up by brain imaging methods.

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LNZv TIL Conan O'Brien has a restraining order against a Catholic priest who was stalking him. After sending many unsettling letters, he was finally arrested when forcefully trying to enter a taping of Late Night.
bw9E TIL: 10 Hasidic Schools that ban internet access, received over $9 million earmarked for computers and technology. Audits revealed classrooms outfitted with ethernet jacks, but no computers were found.
7Jwx TIL when John Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to steal Apple II computers. Carmack concocted a sticky substance of Thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an accomplice set off an alarm & alerted police. Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
PBeV TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, flour manufacturers saw women turning their flour sacks into clothing, diapers, dish cloths, and more, so they started packing their flour in pretty patterns.
M74l7 TIL the state of Georgia in the Unites States has it's own Department of Defense and State Defense Force.