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TIL Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart

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06Dy TIL a man faked mental illness to escape jail, was sent to an asylum and has been trying since to convince doctors he’s sane. He’s been diagnosed a psychopath ‘cause in part, “Faking mental illness to get out of a prison sentence is exactly the kind of manipulative act you’d expect of a psychopath.”
aVAL TIL that there is an ethnic group called the “asian pygmies” that are intentionally going extinct to prevent the passing of their many birth defects.
wyX8 TIL that the first person to win $1M on the US version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire used only one of his lifelines—he phoned his dad on the final question to let him know he knew the answer.
oBv1o TIL of Tycho Brahe, an immensely rich Danish astronomer living in the 16th century that owned not only a midget that could predict the future, but also a pet elk that once drank too much beer on a party, fell down the stairs and died.
VBEAp TIL that Jill Ellis is the only coach - women or men - to win the World Cup as a foreign coach. Every prior winning coach has had the same nationality as the winning country.