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TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.

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Q1l6 TIL that China has mobile “execution vans” that drive around carrying out the death penalty. The government claims this is both more cost-effective and more humane than traditional methods. China executed at least 1,634 people in 2015.
m1mjM TIL the monarch butterfly population has declined 85% in two decades. The western population has suffered a 99% decline. Monarchs are threatened by pesticides — including toxic neonicotinoids and herbicides, which are killing off the milkweed plants they need to survive.
P4eG TIL John Williams subtly put the Imperial March into Anakin’s Theme from Episode I, foreshadowing his turn to the Dark Side.
e0oD5 TIL reindeers can see in UV. They avoid power lines in darkness because they see them not as dim, passive structures but, rather, as lines of flickering light stretching across the terrain.
rVEe TIL of Aeschylus, a man who was killed by a falling turtle. According to legend, he was so bald than an eagle thought is head was a rock and dropped a turtle on him in an attempt to crack the turtles hard shell.