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TIL that statistically conservatives tend to be happier than liberals, and this phenomenon spans across multiple countries and that this persist even after basic demographic factors have been controlled.

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N7E7e TIL Dr. William Dove was able to produce unicorn (single-horn) rams, goats, and a bull in 1930 by moving the un-anchored horn buds of the animal and trimming them so that they fit together. Dove reported that his unicorn bull became the leader of its herd and was very rarely challenged by others.
oBPWL TIL that in 2012 Switzerland carried out a wargame based on the scenario that France had divided into multiple countries after a political and economic crisis. One country, "Saonia," hypothetically invaded Switzerland to retrieve stolen money stashed in Swiss banks.
BB1L TIL: An Oreo’s Double Stuff does not contain double the amount of the tasty creme filling.
R5wRa TIL: In 1905 an outlaw was shot, buried, dug up by his buddies for a last drink, and reburied.
LQvdm TIL As a teenager Bernhard Riemann finished all 900 pages in Legendre's book on the Theory of Numbers in six days. Riemann later challenged what the dimension of real space was and what geometry described real space, ideas too far ahead of its time to be appreciated by most scientists of that time