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TIL Psychopaths and Sociopaths both fall into the same overall mental health diagnosis of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)

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957M TIL A Harvard Professor was able to slow light down so much to the point that it “stopped”.
GYyL4 TIL That, during the War of the Currents, Thomas Edison became so desperate to convince people that Tesla's current was more harmful than his own, that he began paying young boys 25 cents per stray dog they brought him, so he could publicly electrocute them with Tesla's current to prove his point.
woYPM TIL there are towns in Europe shaped like star; The town of Palmanova, Italy, was built as a star fort by the Venetian Republic in 1593.
78MY7 TIL Benjamin Franklin used to sit around naked for extended periods to take air baths
mx8oO TIL when the new character Elmrya was forcefully added to the show “Pinky and the Brain” due to executives wanting to liven it up, the writers added the lyrics: “So Pinky and the Brain/ Share a new domain/ It’s what the network wants/ Why bother to complain?” to its theme song.