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TIL That Maryland’s Official State Sport is Jousting

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ojQ8 TIL of the Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure, the government’s official collection of hilarious and unethical abuses of resources by employees (direct link in comments)
5Mln TIL of the Rosenhan experiment: Sane people faked hearing voices to see if they would be accurately diagnosed. They weren’t. None of the subjects were identified as impostors by the hospital staff, though psychiatric patients seemed to be able to correctly identify them as impostors.
OoL5X TIL the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan is the most-nuked location on earth, with 456 nuclear explosions recorded between 1949 and 1989.
J8mB TIL The word “silhouette” derives from Étienne de Silhouette, French finance minister, whom imposed severe economic demands upon the French. Prior to the advent of photography, profiles cut from black card were the cheapest way of recording a person’s appearance. Therefore, the connection.
ADRBo TIL The 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Carl D. Anderson for the discovery of the positron. While a graduate student at Caltech in 1930, Chung-Yao Chao was the first to experimentally identify positrons through electron–positron annihilation, but did not realize what they were