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TIL there’s an awful Mandarin version of Girlfriend by Avril Lavigne

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6jVX TIL 27% of Canadian university graduates do not have the basic level of literacy traditionally required to function in modern society.
b6vZj TIL In 1970, a comic was published where Superman helped turn Lois Lane black for a day
R7ee6 TIL that research is being done on psychedelics to alleviate cluster headache symptoms. Cluster headaches are an extremely debilitating and painful neurovascular disorder that many are unable to find relief for. By isolating parts of the substance, they can also remove the hallucinogenic effects.
xVDe1 TIL That ancient Greeks hung a branch of bay over the door of a sick person to fend off evil and death. This led to the garlanding of newly qualified doctors with a bay wreath, known as the Bacca laureus in Latin, which gave us the word "baccalaureate" (University Degree).
lGjA TIL the “Streisand Effect” is a phenomenon named after Barbra Streisand where attempting to censor or remove information has the unintended consequence of publishing that information more widely