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TIL Research shows that starting school at 10am instead of 8:30am halves student illness and improves academic performance.

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5VXnD TIL about the "Tanganyika-Laughter Epidemic". A student in 1962 in Tanzania started laughing in a school in Kashasha. The laughter quickly spread to hundreds of people,causing schools to close for months. Researchers believe it was caused by stress, social tensions. No official explanation was given
kJwZB TIL the Frenchmen who invented margarine for Napoleon III first invented a syphilis treatment
7WZ7 TIL the Placebo Effect varies in strength depending on what color the capsules of the sugar pill are.
0oy1 TIL that Estonia is the most advanced state in terms of direct democracy and the use of internet in government
EVZ0 TIL : The New York Times wrote an article about every single September the 11th Victim