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TIL Renowned Harvard psychologist Jerome Kagan is sceptical of the mental-health establishment and pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of incorrectly classifying millions as mentally ill out of self-interest and greed

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DN9j TIL After the ‘Soup Nazi’ episode aired, Seinfeld visited the man it was based off, Ali Yeganeh, who got angry. Seinfeld responded with “the most insincere, sarcastic apology ever given.” Then, Yeganeh bellowed “No Soup for You!” and ejected them from his restaurant.
4XKl6 TIL that Benjamin Lay, an early Quaker abolitionist, walked into the 1738 annual meeting of Quakers and during an abolition speech plunged a sword into a bible he had hollowed out and filled with a bladder full of red fruit juice. To horrified onlookers, the Bible appeared to be bleeding.
VBEaG TIL there was a pyramid constructed in Park Avenue, New York to commemorate the end of WW1. It was made out of 20,000 helmets from their vanquished German foes.
l77ZA TIL that humans can learn echolocation
ba60 TIL of Katinka Hosszu, a Hungarian swimmer who failed to medal at her first two Olympics, got fourth in her third Olympics, and finally at her fourth Olympics won three gold medals