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TIL that unrelated animals have evolved into crabs so many times that biologists have a word for it, "carcinisation"

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NX5eJ TIL that during the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin there was a gliding competition as a demonstration sport
R7Yxj TIL in 2018, a record 151,964 Americans died due to alcohol, drugs or suicide. These so-called "deaths of despair" disproportionately affect people who don't have access to mental health services.
JryQ TIL China had the equivalent of a Hurricane Katrina every month for 100 years. This totally destabilized the country, and helps explain how one of the largest most sophisticated states in the world collapsed so quickly. They are still recovering from these ecological disasters today.
j6BoQ TIL: The creators of the Myers-Briggs test had no formal education in psychology, were self-taught in psychometric testing and only received rudimentary education in test construction, scoring, validation, and statistical methods.
OoN8Y TIL that Coca-Cola once helped NASA to design a nuclear bomb-powered rocket!