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TIL that America's largest industry is still manufacturing, making double what it did 3 decades ago, but it employs a third as much.

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e0105 TIL there is a musical genre called Bardcore, which contains medieval-inspired covers of pop/rock songs. Some covers are instrumental, while others contain altered versions of original lyrics to make them sound "more authentically medieval". Enjoy!
R7nXw TIL Chimpanzees have got all the cognitive abilities necessary for the human-only practice of cooking. They understand that cooking is a process - that food is transformed into a tastier form; they don’t do it in the wild because they’ve never learned to manage fire.
j6JlR TIL The Double Empathy Problem theory suggests social difficulties experienced by autistic people when interacting with non-autistic people are due to reciprocal differences, not an inherent deficiency, most autistic people are able to display good social reciprocity with most other autistic people
BrWXr TIL Louis Braille, inventor of the system of reading and writing for the visually impaired, braille, created the system using the same tool he blinded himself with as a boy, an awl.
JYRGj TIL Sean Bean's screen appearance-to-death ratio is only slightly lower than Kenny from South Park (0.32 deaths/film vs 0.38 deaths/episode)