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TIL that the widely accepted "Learning Styles" theory "everyone has a different learning style (visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic)" has almost no experimental data behind it. The few researches done on the subject proved the opposite.

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D1JKP TIL about 'Out 1', a French film nearly 13 hours long, with a 'short' version itself being 4 hours long. It was also shot at a framerate 1fps faster than cinemas at the time could playback, which made the film 30 minutes longer. Some critics pen this as one of the greatest films ever made.
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kQOg TIL That Julius Caesar’s last words were not “Et tu, Brute?” but were actually “Kai su, teknon?” which translates to “You too, child?” Happy Ides of March!