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TIL: Around 40% of people have never had a nosebleed.

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Boly TIL that Prof. Benjamin has been arguing that highschool students should not be thought calculus, and should learn statistics instead. While calculus is very important for a limited subset of people, statistics is vital in everyone’s day-to-day lives.
4Xr5b TIL that the Stazi used psychological warfare to intimidate opponents. This included moving furniture around, which often drove the victims crazy.
5V1dD TIL that Ken Allen aka "Hairy Houdini" escaped from his enclosures à la prison break multiple times; inciting his friends-orangutans to follow his lead. No surveillance, no undercover mission to try to catch him in the act, succeeded to fool Ken.
xV4l5 TIL that Katsuya Eguchi, the creator for the game Animal Crossing, drew his inspiration for it from experiences of having to move from where he grew up to moving to Nintendo headquarters and wanted to "recreate the feeling of being alone in a new town, away from friends and family."
b9xoa TIL that in 2011, a New York man died on his motorcycle while participating in a protest against the law for mandatory helmets. The police say he would likely have survived had he worn a helmet.