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TIL that brain stimulation using a device that can be built for $20 accelerates learning through a process called transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS).

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nerod TIL 'Hollywood Accounting' is a creative accounting process used to hide film profits. Some of the highest grossing films of all time have actually registered 'net loss' and 'no profit' on paper using this process (incl. Return of the Jedi; Forrest Gump; Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Harry Potter)
JY8Jm TIL that the Oneida silverware company was started by a religious millennial group (1850) who practiced free love and would have menopausal women train the young males how to not ejaculate during sex as a method of abstinence.
mAov TIL: Many German beer names include the word ‘Hell’, meaning pale, and the place they are from. There is a pale lager from Austria called 'Fucking Hell’.
9wpXB TIL There's a forum community offering $10,000 if someone can prove they have a 10" Johnson. Almost 700 pages and no dice.
MeE00 TIL the cult fo the flying spaghetti monster is basically just a copy of the already existing Baháí Faith, that acknowledges all other religions and embraces human rights and science