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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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oBbyY TIL that people that ate candy cigarettes as children are statistically more likely to smoke cigarettes as adults
Eom0 TIL that in 1921 a group of whites burnt the wealthiest black community, in the United States, known as “black wall street”, to ground. Firebombs were dropped from airplanes and hundreds were killed. This massacre was not acknowledged in state history records until 1996.
gElb TIL Butyric acid is present in, and is the main distinctive smell of, human vomit and also gives Parmesan cheese its odour and flavour.
wLeVo TIL of Tsujigiri or 'crossroad killing' the practice whereby a Samurai would test the sharpness of a new katana by attacking a random passerby.
X6jk TIL in 1993 a Missouri man purposely damaged a levee on the Mississippi river to delay his wife coming home from work so he could party. Instead the river flooded 14,000 acres. He was later arrested and convicted of causing a catastrophe and sentenced to life in prison.