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nWVbP TIL about Confraternities in Nigeria, secretive student groups within higher education that have been involved in violence and organized crime since the 1980s. One estimate in 2002 was that 250 people had been killed in campus cult-related murders in the previous decade.
9YPEB TIL Picasso once famously said: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Researchers hypothesized that this is because early childhood is a period characterized by "exuberant neural connectivity" that facilitates "arbitrary sensory experiences in infants."
WkxNo TIL the word Nickelodeon is a combination of the price of a theatre ticket in 1905 (5¢) and the Greek word for theatre.
x6r9w TIL that the concept of cognitive dissonance explains why some followers double down when their leader fails - admitting they were wrong is too painful. Psychologist Leon Festinger coined the term after infiltrating a 1954 UFO cult whose members became more devoted when their prophecy failed
dDyrZ TIL people with 'outdoor' cats generally have lower income and lower educational attainment