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TIL That belief in astrology is strongly correlated to narcissism.

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Z8WWB TIL An award older than the Nobel Prize the 133-year-old James Craig Watson Medal was recently handed to Professor Lisa Kewley, for her outstanding work in Astronomy. This award is held every two years.
awZgo TIL : Physicist FDC Willard made his Siamese cat a co-author on a paper because he accidentally put the pronoun 'We' throughout the paper and couldn't be bothered to change it to 'I'.
lx4V TIL on Titan the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping “wings” attached to their arms.
mxav TIL: In 1965 Mattel Inc. came out with a Slumber Party Barbie, complete with bathroom scale permanently set at 110 lbs and a book entitled “How to Lose Weight” with directions on the back stating simply: “Don’t eat.” Barbie, IRL, would have a BMI of 16.24.
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