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TIL That the terms ‘highbrow’ and 'lowbrow’ come from Phrenology, a pseudoscience which determines intelligence based on the shape of ones skull.

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5aXB TIL of a theory that says society has 4 stages of approx 20 yrs: High (strong institutions; low individualism), Awakening (strong activism & art), Unraveling (distrusted institutions; strong individualism), and Crisis (destroy institutions for national survival). We’re in the Crisis stage.
NXA56 TIL that Bob Heft, the high schooler who allegedly got a B minus on the modern American flag, made a living off of his false claim that he was the designer.
l7oZN TIL studies show that SPF-30 sun screen is just as good at reducing skin damage and skin cancer risk as higher SPF varieties and often provide a better balance of blocking UVA and UVB rays.
m1VLY TIL In 1942 Punxatawney Phil (the Groundhog) did not make a prediction on the remaining length of winter but claimed to only see a partial shadow, adding that, “War clouds have blacked out parts of the shadow.”
BrVOL TIL that in 2014, Tinder made its first match on the continent of Antarctica. Not surprisingly, both parties involved were research scientists.