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TIL: Boredom enhances creativity in child. A simple concept that isn’t popular.

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PYAnL TIL: In 1995 Richard Stallman, a well-known critic of the patent system, testified in Patent Office hearings that, to test the system, a colleague of his had managed to win a patent for one of Kirchhoff's laws, an observation about electric current first made in 1845.
dDa8Z TIL that in 2017, an American high school student collapsed and died after drinking a latte from McDonald's, a large Mountain Dew soda, and a highly caffeinated energy drink in just under two hours
wopQ8 TIL Charles Manson was also a musician and songwriter, and even had one of his songs covered by The Beach Boys. The song was titled "Cease to Exist" and The Beach Boys performed an altered version titled "Never Learn Not To Love." Manson later released an album of his recorded music from in prison.
5VmQR Today I learned from a trucking Facebook group that Truckers will soak toothpicks in meth to keep them awake on long drives.
OoDNX TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.