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yV8pa TIL due to the rising popularity of jeans in the 1960s, one Texas legislator tried to have jeans declared the “official state costume” in 1977. His idea was ignored.
GAggj TIL a psychological process called Misattribution of arousal where people mistakenly assume what is arousing them.
jA4Q TIL Dr Seuss was the first person to coin the word ‘Nerd’ in his 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo.
7rdBp TIL Over a period of four centuries, the accumulated error of adding a leap day every four years amounts to about three extra days. Therefore, the Gregorian calendar drops three leap days every 400 years.
XEEjE According to a new study, pregnant mothers may be able to influence whether their children develop eczema and asthma, simply by having a dog in the home. However, the study also found that this “protective effect” likely has a limited lifespan.