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TIL there is a Kardashian index for scientists that indicate if a scientist has an overblown public profile without significant scientific contribution.

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W7rZB TIL about Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style event where performance enhancing drugs aren't banned or tested, but actively encouraged.
yVrZa TIL that Paralympic athletes with spinal cord injuries cheat by intentionally breaking bones or electrocuting themselves before a competition; as their heart rate and blood pressure does not naturally increase while competing.
D7GV TIL there is a frog which lets itself completely freeze into a ‘frogsicle’ every Winter. Its heart stills, blood stops flowing, and eyes go white because its lenses freeze. In the Summer it thaws and hops away, good as new!
oBQaA TIL that in 1835 a NY newspaper posted a fictional 6 part series proclaiming that life, including unicorns and winged humanoids, had been found on the moon. Although intended as satire, readers, including a committee of scientists from Yale, believed it and it became known as The Great Moon Hoax
VBrm0 TIL Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama (the one responsible for choosing the next Dalai Lama), was abducted in 1995 by the Chinese government when he was only 6 years old. He has not been seen or heard from since.