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TIL about the Pizza Effect: the phenomenon of a nation's or people's culture being transformed elsewhere, then re-exported to their culture of origin

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ne6DP TIL that high education has been associated with faster cognitive decline after diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
EgBNW TIL Deaf people are known to use sign language in their sleep while they are dreaming.
4X9Xa TIL US Marine Reservist Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid served in Operation Restore Hope (the setting of Black Hawk Down). His father, Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, was the opposition leader. One weekend in 1995 he didn’t show up to drill because he was busy taking over as warlord.
9dVm TIL in 1971, 25-year-old Steven Spielberg directed the debut episode of Columbo.
J1KKl TIL that x86-based chips are slower and more wasteful in energy than their ARM counterparts, but Intel's dominance in PCs meant ARM chips never took off in that market. However, their advantages allowed them to dominate the nascent smartphone market.