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TIL The extinct Pyrenean ibex was resurrected by cloning
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VjV4
TIL we can predict spontaneous decisions ~7.5 seconds before people become consciously aware of them.
QDRX
TIL giving kids too much praise can undermine their self-esteem and make them anxious
nLPB
TIL a defense lawyer sat a random person at the defendant’s table. When the prosecution’s only witness, a police officer, was asked to point to the defendant in the room, the cop pointed to the man at the defense table. The real client was declared not guilty; the defense lawyer was held in contempt
59nr
TIL goats have rectangular pupils which allow them to see 320 to 340 degrees around them
Arl
TIL that the computer term booting up comes from the phrase “Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps”. This is because, paradoxically, a computer cannot run without first loading software but some software must run before any software can be loaded.