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TIL Albert Einstein used the same soap for shaving and washing because of a firm conviction that two kinds of soap needlessly complicate life.

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ADn7d TIL that in 1995, after six years on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, Katalin Karikó, the woman behind the mRNA technology, got demoted because her bosses saw no point in pressing on
jNGNX TIL Khajuraho: India’s temples of sex built-in 10th AD are a group of temples covered with erotic sculptures that involve masturbation, group sex, and bestiality & are of Tantric origin. Studies say that they represent the ultimate embodiment of Yogic Purusha & Prakati.
vPBWK TIL as a teenager, noted skeptic James Randi found a pastor who claimed he could read minds. After performing the same cold-reading trick on the parishioners, the pastor's wife called police who then jailed him.
mYvx TIL that girls who grow up with a stepfather begin menstruating about 1 year earlier than those who grow up with their biological father
r7wx TIL in 1991 mutinous units of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard attempted to launch missile attacks against coalition forces in Saudi Arabia to trigger an armed conflict between Iran and the United States. Regular Iranian army forces rushed to the missile battery to prevent the missiles’ firing.