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TIL that, after Richard Feynman was named the world’s smartest man by Omni magazine, his mother said, “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”.

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a1J9 TIL the HIV/AIDS conspiracy theory in which the disease was manufactured by the US government, was actually a KGB misinformation campaign, Operation INFEKTION
6ap8 TIL that in 1913, Hitler, Freud, Tito, Stalin, and Trotsky all lived within 2 square miles of each other in Vienna
Xlxj TIL Learned helplessness is a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.
v15Bj TIL that the quarantine flag, also called the “Yellow Jack”, is an international signal flag that was last flown during the 2002-03 SARS outbreak. The flag is flown from a ship that is either arriving in port with known serious health problems or that has been placed under quarantine.
v15Rr TIL In January 2014, in response to a wave of anti-gay laws passed in Africa, Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay, first writing an essay that he described as a "lost chapter" of his 2011 memoir entitled "I am a Homosexual, Mum"