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TIL That ADHD Was Actually An Advantage For Our Nomadic Ancestors

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pmab TIL a belief that the eye “recorded” the last image seen before death was widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the process of retrieving the image is called ‘Optography’.
4mo TIL Rockstar Games (Max Payne, GTA, etc) has purposely avoided making any First Person Shooters, claiming Max Payne 3 is the closest
PYkmO TIL: Debbie Harry & Andy Kaufman starred in a Broadway play about wrestling; closed after 1st night
wLkNo TIL the Wright brothers may not have done what they did if not for a hockey accident that sent Wilbur Wright into a depression, causing him to cancel his plans of going to Yale, and eventually open the bicycle shop with his brother.
yV0yM TIL Nuclear Fission was first achieved by Enrico Fermi in 1934 by accident, it took 2 German chemists 4 years to realize he had split the atom