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TIL that the University of Nebraska Omaha helped create educational materials to aid and encourage the mujahedeen resistance by emphasizing the jihadist aspects of Islam

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P1aMO TIL Contrary to common belief, brain dominance theory is false. We can't be more right-brained or left-brained. While each side controls different aspects of thought & function, we use both sides equally to process our 50,000 thoughts per day (average number per day).
W7yxX TIL the University of Bologna is considered to be the oldest university in the Western Hemisphere
9J96 TIL forged paintings can efficiently be tested for by identifying the isotopes cesium-137 and strontium-90 because they did not exist in nature before the nuclear bombings in 1945.
mxnLO TIL that Olivia de Haviland and Joan Fontaine were sisters and lifelong rivals. They were born 15 months apart and were rivals as kids. When Joan won an Oscar against her sister in 1942, she ignored Olivia’s congratulations. 5 years later Olivia did the same to Joan when she won.
79lx TIL 35 GBs of Titanfall’s total file size of 49 GBs is uncompressed audio because the engineers thought the minimum specification CPU couldn’t handle decompressing the audio.