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TIL that studies have shown that homework has little to no impact on students’ academic success, and that it is more beneficial for students to simply take up hobbies and spend time with family instead.

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yQ4ja TIL Scotland banned Christmas for nearly 400 years. It didn’t become a public holiday until 1958.
OZnR TIL in 2008, users of 7chan.org hacked into the website of Epilepsy Foundation of America and replaced the support forum with flashing images and animations.
V7kQ TIL That the amount of money kids get per tooth from the tooth fairy has mirrored the S&P 500 for 10 out of the last 11 years
nekWP TIL 16% of all women 65 and over, are living at Poverty level. Marital status impacts whether an older woman is living in poverty. 26.1% of women who never married live in poverty compared 4.9% of married women. $12,490 is the poverty level, US poverty rate 13.9 percent.
R5vW8 TIL The geometric foundational work for Einstein's general theory of relativity in 1915 was laid by Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann some 60 years earlier