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TIL about Penitentes, rare natural snow formations, named as such after the hooded penitents of Easter

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WkmW9 TIL that when a sailor with chronic sea sickness was ordered back to sea because the doctors denied that sea sickness was a real illness, an admiral ordered all port medical staff to take a short voyage by ship in rough seas. The next day the doctors changed their opinion.
er9E TIL: That studies of poorly performing medicines often get buried and positive studies are more than twice as likely to be published
0dWpN TIL that Student Syndrome refers to planned procrastination, when, for example, a student will only start to apply themselves to an assignment at the last possible moment before its deadline. According to an academic source, this induces a level of urgency high enough to ensure the task is completed
GKMj TIL: Utah has been giving free homes to homeless people since 2005 which since then made it more cost efficient to help the homeless and cut the chronic homelessness in Utah by 74%.
GY8mG TIL the NFL requires every team to be owned by one owner or a small group, one of which must hold 1/3+ of the shares. The Packers are the only exception, community owned disallowing any single owner to own more than 200,000 shares.