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TIL that in China, thousands of teenagers have been labeled as "internet addicts" and sent to internet addiction clinics which are just psychiatric facilities that abuse them since 2002

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M7eQV TIL about king Wuyi of Shang dynasty of China. He humiliated an idol called the god of heaven after playing a game with it when it lost the game. He also shot a leather bag filled with blood in the sky and said he was shooting the heavens.He was killed by lightening while on a hunting trip.
w598 TIL that the American accent of the English language was actually the same as the British accent during colonization. Over time, the British accent kept changing while the American stayed almost unchanged.
nevW7 TIL exponential, log and trig functions are examples of transcendental functions, which "transcend" algebra as they can't be expressed with a sequence of the algebraic operations of addition, multiplication and root extraction. Unlike algebraic functions, they can't satisfy polynomial equations.
gr7O7 TIL: Ivan Pavlov of Pavlov’s dogs also experimented on orphaned children which involved drilling a hole in their cheeks and applying electric shocks.
4XerN TIL that an 18-year-old girl called Rae Heim ran across America almost entirely barefoot. She only wore shoes on some hard terrain. She ran 3,437.5 miles in 8 months and raised more than $10,000 for charity. She started running barefoot at 16 after breaking a big toe, and kept it up after it healed.