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TIL Zippers Are Top Cause of Penile Trauma in US
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TIL Einstein's last paper on quantum physics before departing from the field argued that it's an "incomplete" solution to a fundamental problem, with him writing that God "does not play dice." Ironically, the paper was highly influential and paved the way for decades of progress in quantum physics.
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TIL that according to a University of Chicago study, while the joy of receiving gifts lessens over time, the psychological benefits of giving do not. Participants’ happiness hardly declined if they repeatedly bestowed gifts on others, versus repeatedly receiving those same gifts themselves.
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TIL A Yale student snuck a card for the fictional book, the Necronomicon, into the university library’s card catalog.
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TIL Red Dye No. 3, which is used as a food coloring, is banned as a food additive in the European Union, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and California
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TIL that the Life expectancy number we know for the middelages includes the infant mortality, so 13th-century English nobles had 30 year life expectancy at birth, but when they reached the age of 21, they would normaly have a expectancy of 64.