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TIL that research shows you’re more likely to have a creative epiphany when you’re doing something monotonous, like fishing, exercising, or showering.

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kJGeg [TIL] The concept of zero as a number was first developed in India, and its use spread to the Islamic world and then to Europe.
grLxy TIL about Torsten Stålnacke - a Swede who, on 1961/09/14, during the Congo Crisis, had his jaw nearly shot off in battle. Forced to clear his windpipe of bone fragments in order to breathe, Torsten used M3-E1 to destroy an enemy APC - all the while holding his almost blown off chin in his free hand!
jNwgj TIL in 2012, Senegal got rid of its Senate and used the estimated $15 million to aid in a recent flood and to prevent future ones
e0Qv5 TIL that in 1973 a Mercedes-Benz 770 F-Cabriolet that was stated to be Hitler's parade limousine was sold for a then record of $153,000. A week later it was revealed to have belonged to Finnish President Carl Mannerheim, but this news was ignored, and the car broke the record again half a year later
wLZw8 TIL of Jeanne de Clisson, a former noblewoman who became a privateer to avenge her husband after he was executed for treason by the French king. She plied the English Channel and targeted French ships, often slaughtering the crew, leaving few alive.