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TIL Snoop Dogg presents a children’s series ‘Doggyland - Kids Songs & Nursery Rhymes’

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kJeY1 TIL the Ancient Greeks believed that the North Pole was actually a sunny and temperate sanctuary called Hyperborea, which was blessed by Apollo.
BY8x TIL that the US government during WW2 asked the press to avoid discussing “polonium, uranium, ytterbium, hafnium, protactinium, radium, rhenium, thorium, deuterium”. Only uranium was secret, for the Manhattan Project, but was listed with the other elements to hide its importance.
VBwYZ Today I learned Tabula rasa (blank slate) is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception, which is in direct contrast to Innatism which is the idea that the mind is born with ideas, knowledge, and beliefs.
mxgVM TIL a Lieutenant Colonel saved more lives on the planet than almost anyone by disobeying orders and acting against military protocol in what appeared to be a nuclear exchange by superpowers.
9v5Q TIL that, if we could extend our lives indefinitely, humans would die at an average age of 1200 in accidents.