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4kyL6 TIL Mary the Color Scientist, a thought experiment, about a scientist in a black & white world, who has extensive knowledge of color but no actual experience of it. The experiment asks whether Mary will gain new knowledge when she goes outside of the colorless world and experiences seeing in color.
rN7Px TIL turtles and tortoises have nerve endings in the shells. They can feel you touch their shells as well as pain when something hurts their shell.
vPmnj TIL that the first Major League Baseball All-Star game - played on July 6, 1933 - was intended to be a one-time event to boost morale during the Great Depression. The American League won over the National League by a score of 4 - 2.
9YWvG TIL that people whose mother language is anumeric (a language that has no way of expressing arbitrary numbers) struggle to compare and remember the exact size of collections of as little as four objects. This suggests that numeric abilities are intrinsically related to linguistic abilities
lPy7 TIL Higher intelligence has been linked to unconventional sexual practices aswell as frequent sexual fantasies and thoughts.