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TIL making girls play video games improves their spatial intelligence to match boys

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LkQPm TIL wealth and power cause brain damage that effects empathy and being able to see things from other's point of view.
gM9ND TIL Curd Jürgens (Actor who played a Bond Villian) was so critical of Nazis in his native Germany that in 1944, he was sent to an internment camp in Hungary as a "political unreliable"
Y7mrG TIL the word "cyanide" traces its origin to the color cyan since hydrogen cyanide was called "blue acid"
Br6Oy TIL that J.K. Rowling originally wanted Monty Python member Terry Gilliam to direct the Harry Potter films.
4Xva5 TIL "The Royal Order of Whale Bangers" was a WWII medal presented by patrol squadron (VP-53) to any of its bombardiers who sank a whale instead of a U-Boat.