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a8pkJ TIL. Coral isn’t a plant nor stone; coral is a group of animals!
5Y1b9 TIL prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribes had an average group limit of 50 people. Incidentally, modern research shows that in the video game World of Warcraft, maximum group player cohesiveness occurs at a limit of 50 players.
9YyL6 TIL That the inventor of the IQ test, Alfred Binet, did not created it with the intention of measuring intelligence. Instead, his intention was to classify the "mental age" of kids and indetify the ones that weren't developing themselves well in school and sort of "rescue" them
Gp5E TIL that groups of human beings, left free to each regulate themselves, tend to produce spontaneous order, rather than meaningless chaos
M77L7 TIL about “The Open Veins of Latin America,” a seminal historical analysis on resource exploitation since the Conquistadors, and how precious metal mining for bullets and aircraft feeds the Northern hemisphere’s depletion of resources and people from the Rio Grande to the Amazon