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Today I learned Tabula rasa (blank slate) is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception, which is in direct contrast to Innatism which is the idea that the mind is born with ideas, knowledge, and beliefs.

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WkxZd TIL a man hiking in Colorado scared off a mountain lion by yelling Seinfeld dialog at it
OGMv1 TIL The Collective Noun is the term used for the noun that denotes a group of individual animals. Usually a colorful and descriptive noun that lets people know you are talking about a group and not one. Vultures have one of the Largest Numbers of Collective Nouns based on what they are doing.
XE5xk TIL that in 2006, Channel 4's "Gadget Show" tested the durability of an 'Indestructible USB' by cooking it with propane, freezing it with dry ice, submerging it in acidic liquids, running over it in a Jeep, and firing it against a wall with a mortar cannon - all data was recovered from the USB.
WlY TIL there is a theorem which posits a hairy sphere can never be combed perfectly flat.
lVMa TIL the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave killed 739 people, more than the great fire of 1871.