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TIL a Tsar’s nephew may have accidentally caused the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history

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wvbo TIL Charles Darwin was never much of a mathematician and wrote that studying math was repugnant to him. However, it later turned out that his research with plants hybrids made him a pioneer in a subfield of statistics
kOeMe TIL scientists proposed a “Minimal Turing Test” where you get to use only one word to convince others you are human, and not a machine. The single word that people found most likely to distinguish a human from a machine based on a new study was the word “poop”.
MeDGa TIL: According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech, but more likely began as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.
Ek7p TIL MTV banned Beavis and Butthead from referencing fire, specifically Beavis’ “Fire” chant, after an arson was blamed on the show. In response, the show had Beavis chant words similar to fire such as fryer. The ban was lifted for the revival and Beavis says fire 7 times in the first video segment.
wLYKW Antidepressants may significantly increase the risk of developing dementia, experts have warned.