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TIL of James Clerk Maxwell who wrote the first equations unifying electricity, magnetism, and light as being part of the same phenomenon.

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nWDZP TIL of German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. He created a list of nonsensical words to test his memory. He demonstrated that increased repetitions led to increased retention, graphing the relationship in what would be known as the learning curve.
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