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TIL the optimal temperature for economic growth is 13°C

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R0m9 TIL that only 3 people have earned Academy Award nominations for best actor and best screenplay for the same film: Charlie Chaplin, Orson Wells, and… Sylvester Stallone
NA8M TIL most modern handheld devices like iPhones contain a mineral called “coltan” that is being produced as a commodity by slaves exploited by rebel armies in the Congo.
wLBa6 TIL eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruss, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have that origin.
dD5xK TIL that adults who played Pokémon video games extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of each Pokémon. Stanford researchers identified the brain region activated by Pokémon characters.
ne1ZW TIL (According to Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's 1969 study Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution) Names for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue.