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TIL You aren’t supposed to wear white after Labor Day due to an old fashion rule made by rich women to separate “Old Money” people from “New Money” people.

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dD7Bj TIL when mathematician Évariste Galois was still in his teens, he was able to solve a problem that had been open for 350 years. Then at the age of 20, for reasons that remain obscure, he fought in a duel and died from the wounds he suffered.
xVKYo Today I learned that the Scoville scale which is used to figure out the heat of any given pepper is determined by the number of dilutions of sugar water needed to eliminate the heat.
VvjZ TIL American soldiers during WWII started a riot in New Zealand because they didn’t segregate their bars and they didn’t want to drink with non-white people.
1Y0r TIL that PhD students display twice as many symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as depression than other people.
D1ajr TIL Abba turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite