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TIL: about the Replication Crisis; a phrase coined in the early 2010's referring to an ongoing methodological crisis concerning the finding that 70% of published scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce.

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Wx6X TIL the first Indian to make contact with the pilgrims boldly walked into the Plymouth encampment and greeted them in English to everyone’s complete shock
JVdv TIL The first woman to run for President was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, almost 50 years before women could vote.
OGPM1 TIL Konstanti Tsiolkovsky, one of the fathers of space exploration, was designing ideas for a tubular space station in 1896 that would go on to resemble the Salyut stations 75 years in the future.
nWLKd TIL Panama exists because Columbia would not sell their canal to the United States, so the U.S. Army allied with some local rebels who declared independence in 1903.
Y98W TIL that camels originated in the present day United States and only later spread to Asia and North Africa