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TIL PhD students are 2.5 times more likely to develop psychiatric disorders than highly educated general population

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wLKjM TIL that the word "pumpernickel" can literally translate to "devil's fart" because of the bread's "reputed indigestibility"
0dbQj TIL Male Sea-Monkeys have long arms and will fight over females, but if one dies the winner must remain attached to the corpse for the rest of its life and is then unable to mate anyway.
7rnQL TIL Why Cilantro Tastes Like Soap. People who report that "cilantro tastes bad" have a variation of olfactory-receptor genes that allows them to detect aldehydes—a compound found in cilantro that is also a by-product of soap and part of the chemical makeup of fluids sprayed by some bugs.
W7EQA TIL That A generation of scientists at the Solvay Conference, 1927. 17 of the 29 attendees were or became Nobel Prize winners.
d0kj TIL The retail food industry is being forced to sell grossly overcooked chicken in order to get rid of the red blood color around the bones.