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Today I learned Nurses Day is the birthday of Florence Nightingale

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GOAE TIL that when the Chinese stopped killing sharks for sharkfin soup at the behest of Yao Ming, that people instead shifted to killing Manta Rays
awEA TIL that people seeing the movie version of “Clue” in theaters didn’t know which of the three endings they were going to see when they went into the movie. Eventually, theaters began advertising which ending the movie would have so people could see the endings they hadn’t already seen.
LJap TIL that white-tailed eagles often reuse their nests instead of recreating them year after year. One family of white-tailed eagles in Iceland have taken this to the extreme by reusing the same nest for 150 years.
mWBM TIL when the Great Depression began in 1929, US was the only industrialized country in the world without unemployment insurance or social security.In 1935, Congress passed the Social Security Act, providing Americans with unemployment, disability and pensions for old age
P1xeO TIL about the Illusory truth effect, also known as the illusion of truth effect, validity effect, truth effect, or the reiteration effect) is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure