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TIL that praising kids for their intelligence may actually stifle their progress. Instead, they should be praised for their effort.

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rRLOx TIL that on 21st May 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
Y7L4Z TIL that in the battle of Changping between the state of Qin and Zhao during China's warring states period. After emerging victorious from the battle, Qin's commander - Bai Qi ordered his soldiers to massacre almost all of the Zhao's prisoners of war - some 400.000 of them.
vL6K TIL In 2010 Kodak discontinued the famed Kodachrome film. The last roll was shot by acclaimed National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry best known for his portrait ‘Afghan Girl’. The last 36 slides captured images around New York and a tribe in India on the verge of extinction.
E1Dwo TIL the oldest company in the world was a Buddhist Temple builder that had been in business continually for 1,428 years before succumbing to financial difficulties in 2006.
woZKP TIL in 1969 Led Zeppelin, after the Seattle Pop Festival alongside Vanilla Fudge, stayed in the Edgewater Inn where you can rent fishing poles, and fish out your room window. Allegedly, the band pleasured a willing groupie with a shark, and Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge recorded it on an 8mm camera.