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TIL There is no globally accepted or clinical definition of a nootropic

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b6JdE TIL that Thailand operates the world’s smallest aircraft carrier. It carries a handful of helicopters, many of which have been reported as broken; and it mostly sits in dock except for one training day per month. It has been derided as the world’s priciest royal yacht.
N7Ke6 TIL in 2009 a UK and French nuclear ballistic submarines collided with each other as neither of them knew the other sub was nearby. They were submerged and running silent but were moving slowly enough that though the ships were damaged, there were no injuries nor radioactive releases.
E191d TIL the Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 shoe.
NX6aE TIL that plant bio-electricity can be harvested and transformed into ambient music with devices which measure slight electrical variations in a plant and translate them into musical notes.
oBAaY TIL that George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party in 1959 (which is still around today) was murdered by a previous party member that he expelled in 1967 for trying to inject Marxist views in their publications