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TIL that creativity and mental illness are chemical cousins

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QJav9 TIL: That the 11/4/1954 is 'The most boring day in history'.
7rNxZ TIL that Abraham Lincoln was clean shaven for almost his entire life. While running for President in 1860, an eleven-year-old girl wrote to him and said his face looked to thin and he needed to grow a beard. He took up her advice. After him, only two of the next eleven presidents lacked facial hair.
4ZK6 TIL that architecture, painting, poetry, music, literature, all used to be part of the Olympic Games.
16ZdO TIL that “human zoos” used to be a popular attraction, and Belgium closed their last one in 1958.