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TIL that Jews were often blamed and persecuted for being the cause of the Black Plague.

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1ay77 TIL: The first recorded usage of BC/AD years was in the year 525 AD
Ooyv6 TIL that Geoffrey Tandy, a marine biologist who specialised in cryptogams (algae, moss, etc.), was recruited to a secret British codebreaking organization during WWII because the Ministry of Defence confused “cryptogamist” with “cryptogramist.” Tandy ended up helping to crack the Enigma code anyway.
8KP8 TIL Your reality is 15 seconds in the making: When you really focus your attention on something, you’re said to be “in the present moment.” But research suggests that the “present moment” is actually a chunk of the recent past, and it’s about 15 seconds long.
xV9Kb TIL that some women who meet their boyfriend/husband while on birth control find that they’re no longer sexually attracted to him once they quit birth control in order to start a family.
vPNR TIL Harvard students celebrate ‘Incest-Fest’. Where the main goal is to have sex with as many people as possible instead of studying