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TIL one can predict with 95% accuracy whether a person politically leans left or right based on different brain responses to seeing something “disgusting”

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Y90P TIL after a Pittsburgh Restaurant Owner did away with tipping, paid employees a base salary of at least $35k/year (plus bonuses), gave them health care from date of hire, 500 shares in the business and a paid vacation, the restaurant tripled its profits in 2 months.
OoN7g TIL Isaac Newton formulated laws of optics, gravity and calculus in his early 20s while in lockdown from the plague.
WkQxL TIL Every able-bodied resident of the Russian village of Tsovkra can tightrope walk. The tradition goes back more than 100 years and nobody is sure how it started.
j6ZJR TIL Wolfgang Mozart had a sister, Maria Anna, who was also an extremely talented child prodigy in music. Sadly, she was prevented from performing as an adult. Many of her compositions have been lost, including one Wolfgang wrote that he was in ‘awe’ of, contributing to her obscurity.
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