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TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.

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4XP6a TIL that Wanda Barzee, the wife of Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper (and accomplice to the abduction) is currently free, having been released from prison in 2018
gMpy7 TIL Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter was an aspiring mycologist when the prestigious Linnean Society rejected her submitted paper on fungi reproduction because she was a woman. 100 years later (and 54 years after her death), they formally apologized for their sexist treatment of her work
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VXbk TIL Woody Allen’s son tweeted last Father’s Day: “Happy father’s day— or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law’s day”