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TIL In a study of the mental health of students, higher levels of prayer were associated with better mental health as measured by lower psychoticism scores. However, in Catholic schools, higher levels of prayer were also associated with higher neuroticism scores.

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pY5kA TIL that there are multiple species of cotton. The most common species today came from Central America, Mexico, and the Carribean, with the other three commercially grown species from are from South America; South Asia; and Africa and Arabia. There are even Australian species of wild cotton.
QNMA6 TIL nuclear warhead miniaturisation got to this level: variable 5-150 kiloton TNT in an 80x30 cm shell, weighing 130 kg
yQRXM TIL A woodpeckers tongue is 1/3 of its body length, and they wrap it around the back of their skull to protect their brain when pecking.
kra5 TIL that there is a counterfeit egg industry in China, and one person can make approximately 1500 of them per day.
woOvP TIL about the Indiana Pi Bill, a proposed law in 1897 that would have made pi equal to 3.2. Passed unanimously in the Indiana House, it was stopped by a Purdue University mathematician.