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TIL Isaac Asimov refused the invitation to visit friend and famed A.I. pioneer Marvin Minsky’s lab at MIT in the 1960s because he was “Writing about really intelligent robots of the future and was sure that if he came and saw the clumsy ones that we were making it would spoil his imagination.”

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1adad TIL women are banned from Mount Athos, an autonomous region of Greece, because the Eastern Orthodox priests of the island believe only the Virgin Mary should represent her gender. This rule also applies to all female animals, except cats.
Ebvd TIL Contrary to many other cultures at the time and those leading up to it, Viking society allowed women just as many rights as men. Including: divorce, right to inherit, cohabitation, having children out of wedlock. These practices were lost when Christianity was introduced.
5Vx0D TIL that humans have been sewing even before the Homo Sapiens!
jNg7n TIL that critically acclaimed author Brandon Sanderson is also a lecturer at BYU and posts his lectures for free on YouTube for any aspiring authors/curious people
Z8NVD TIL: the parasitic 'Honey' Mushroom (Armillaria mellea) is both one of the oldest and largest single organisms in the world; roots stretching 8.8 square kilometres and somewhere between 2,000 and 9,000 years old!