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TIL there’s a math book called Generatingfunctionology (yes, that’s one word).

Read more www2.math.upenn.edu

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R1V7 TIL Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is set to become Vietnam’s first female billionaire thanks to her idea of staffing Vietjet Airlines with attractive women clad in sexy two-piece swimsuits.
ne78B TIL that a Harvard study followed men for 75 years, including a subject named Godfrey Minot Camille. He began the study with the lowest rating for future stability of all the subjects and he had previously attempted suicide. But at the end of his life, he was one of the happiest of all.
ANxLn TIL in 1924 French colonists deliberately introduced an insect to Madagascar in order to kill off plants which native pastoralists used as food and animal feed - leading to a famine which killed hundreds and displaced thousands, but cleared land and made labor available for French sugar plantations
8aJ1b TIl that in New Delhi (India) if trees fall sick, an ambulance is dispatched to treat them. This came into effect in 2009 and takes four people to do the job.
RWEl TIL that “Rock, Paper, Scissor” has been around since 200AD. And the same hand gestures we use today have been used since the 1600’s.