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TIL: Israel is the only country to revive an unspoken language and establish it as its national tongue.

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7na7 TIL there is a branch in psychology whose purpose is to use scientific understanding and effective interventions to aid to satisfactory normal life rather than merely treating mental illness. It’s called positive psychology.
jp5X TIL That scientists have discovered how to temporarily induce Rain-Man like skills in normal people by stimulating parts of the brain with magnetic pulses.
vKEK TIL that Jews were blamed (and killed) for the spread of the Black Death due to being somewhat unaffected by it… (It was due to their isolation & better hygiene.)
ANMA7 TIL that planet Vulcan was a small hypothetical planet proposed in 1859 to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun, this hypothesis has been disproven in 1915 by Einstein's theory of relativity
v1keD TIL that Miitopia, a game for the 3DS, is the first and currently only Nintendo developed game to receive an adult rating, as in Russia, any game showing same sex relationships in a positive light gets an automatic 18+ rating, despite everything else in Miitopia being child friendly