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TIL about Rubber Duck debugging, a name for solving a problem by trying to explain it to someone else

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YNdG TIL By the time a person in the United States is 65 years old, he would have seen an estimated two million television commercials
d87K9 TIL Jonas Salk, who played a key role in prevention of polio outbreaks, entered college as a pre-law student, hoping to be elected to Congress one day. He switched to medicine because his mother thought that he wouldn't become a successful lawyer.
m1Zbv TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote a joke paper submission to the Royal Academy of Brussels called "Fart Proudly" which details how important research into reducing the smell of farts needs to be undertaken.
e04x4 TIL that mosquitoes can not only smell what blood type you are, they prefer type O. In fact, people who are type O are twice as likely to be bitten than someone who is type A.
eodE TIL that Darwin dedicated 40 years of his life to studying on earthworms.To figure out how their auditory system worked,he would play piano for them.