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TIL A study found prejudice affects our abilities- When Asian girls were reminded of their ethnicity they did better at math, but when they were reminded of their gender, they did worse.

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J1ppB TIL that a computer programmer became a romance author. After developing SuperBASIC for the Sinclair QL computer, Jan Jones began writing fiction; her first book, 'Stage By Stage' (2005), won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Joan Hessayon Award.
kJ1Wm TIL about Johnny Clem, who joined the Union Army as a drummer boy at age 10. Clem became a legend when he shot and killed a Confederate Colonel at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
8aNRG TIL Massachusetts banned Christmas for 22 years because people were drinking too much and crossdressing
OGyGR TIL that in 2001, Seattle had a huge Mardi Gras party in their Pioneer Square neighborhood that culminated in a huge riot that left 100 people arrested, 70 people hurt and 1 person (Kris Kime) killed.
oBNxR TIL: In the '60s a researcher put 3 men who believed themselves to be Jesus in a support group together, and all three ended up believing the others were wrong and they were still Jesus and the others were robots after much arguing over their divinity