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TIL the city of Portland, Oregon got its name because of a coin flip between two of its settlers in 1843, each of whom wanted to name it after their respective hometowns. The other potential name for the city was Boston.

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l71LA TIL about the Rosenhahn Experiment, where several researchers feigned psychiatric symptoms and were admitted to psychiatric hospitals, only to immediately act normal after admission. None of the staff identified the researchers as impostors, and many had difficulty getting released later.
oBgQo TIL that the three great minds: Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Erwin Schrödinger behind Quantum Mechanics all read from and greatly respected the Vedas, the ancient Indian Sanskrit texts on spirituality. Schrödinger even mentioned this in a book he wrote called "My view of the world."
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