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TIL conversations in Japanese often involve a ‘yes’ that is meaningless and a pause that means 'no’

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60Al TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only actor/actress to win the Best Actor/Actress Oscar four times.
mavR TIL That CERN collects 30 petabytes of data (3 x 10^10Mb) every year from smashing protons together in the Large Hadron Collider
raWw TIL Even though Australia’s signed all 5 treaties that make up the the International Bill of Human Rights, none of these treaties are legally binding in Australia. They are the only Western democratic country without a constitutional bill of rights to protect the rights and freedoms of its citizens.
Lkdjm TIL that 40 percent of Cambodians suffer psychological problems as a result of the Khmer Rouge massacre that killed a third of its population between 1975 and 1979
d8Odr TIL about the 1961 Bobo doll experiment to study aggresion. Researchers physically abused an inflatable Clown doll in front of children, who then mimicked the behaviour, attacking Bobo in a similar fashion.