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TIL the common saying “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results” didn’t originate from Einstein, Ben Franklin, or Confucius but rather from Rita Mae Brown’s paraphrasing a quote from Narcotics Anonymous in 1983.

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6ppQ TIL none of the world record holders in boomerang competitions are Australian.
D15Qg TIL Tori Amos taught herself to play piano at the age of 2, and started composing at the age of 3. She was admitted into the Peabody Conservatory at the age of 5, but lost the scholarship six years later, reportedly due to her dislike for using sheet music and interest in rock and pop music.
OoAx4 TIL that our modern Latin alphabet is ultimately descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (as are basically all modern writing systems not derived from Chinese characters)
P1dWV TIL: In 1984, geologist Dale Guthrie took a piece of neck meat from a 50000 year old bison mummified in permafrost, cooked it into a stew, then ate it with his wife. He and his wife suffered no ill effects