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TIL the inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self taught and without formal college training.
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TIL A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor and asked around for good reviews. Eventually, the fake restaurant was the #1 restaurant in London, and was being called up 100s of times daily for bookings. For a day, the man set up a “cafe” in his backyard and served frozen food to rave reviews.
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TIL of the Köhler Effect: when one less-capable person works harder to match more-capable people in the same task. Köhler Effect is strongest when a less-able man is paired with a more-capable woman, (thought to be because it's more embarrassing to men to be outperformed by a woman than a man).
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TIL that California has a larger population than all of Canada.
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TIL that the de Bothezat helicopter was a quadcopter that first flew in 1922 and Thomas Edison called it the first successful helicopter.