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TIL that lower-status individuals use more jargon when communicating. The behavior is described by scientists as "linguistic overcompensation ".

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o6M8 TIL that the shortest scientific paper ever published had zero words. A clinical psychologist Dennis Upper attempted an experiment: to combat writer’s block by writing about it. His experiment failed, but no results are results all the same, and the paper was published.
9R4p TIL people in Japan aged between 40-74 by law have their waist lines measured, if they are found to be over weight their companies and local government can be fined.
ne7WW TIL that the sum of all numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
bP7 TIL Scientist in Nevada are creating sheep that are part human with the main purpose “to produce a source of organs, especially livers, to transplant someday into humans.”
w4w7 TIL too much peppermint can give you an itchy anus