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78OeM TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics
4kEV5 TIL: When you say "Yes" in Bulgaria you shake your head, and when you say "No" you nod.
yQX9l TIL that the notorious Nazi general, Erwin Rommel, abandoned the mother of his first child.
1a0n7 TIL that about the Best Baguette in Paris competition. The winner gets to deliver a daily baguette to the president of France.
JYyxQ TIL the Queen's Engineering Society's motto "Quis Dolor Cui Dolium" translates to "Who suffers who has a cask of wine?" This motto was devised in 1963 to lend some Latin dignity to the Society's informal English motto, "What the hell as long as there's free beer."