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TIL 2/3 of all illiterate adults are female.

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N7VD6 TIL of the Murray Gell-Man Amnesia Effect, i.e., we give newspapers the benefit of the doubt even after we catch them being inaccurate on subjects we know about. (Term was coined by Michael Crichton in "Why Speculate?")
XdRP TIL The US considered dyeing Mt. Fuji black in WWII as psychological warfare against the Japanese
kO6wW TIL MRI studies show that the teenage brain is not an old child brain or a half-baked adult brain; it is a unique entity characterized by changeability and an increase in networking among brain regions
X0mRX TIL that Martin Luther King's family sued against "unknown government agencies" for the assassination of MLK. They won, while using the same lawyer as MLK's assassin, James Earl Ray.
a84QJ TIL after a serious accident that left him with a permanent injury, Emperor Maximilian I became mordibly depressed in his later year. For the last four years of his life, he wouldn't travel anywhere without his coffin