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TIL philosopher Joseph Levine’s 1983 paper introduced the “explanatory gap” noting while “Pain is the firing of C fibers” is physiologically valid, it doesn’t make us understand how pain feels. Showing the challenge physicalists face in connecting physical properties to subjective experiences.

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D1aJJ TIL The first name recorded in writing is on a five thousand year old clay tablet found in what used to be Mesopotamia. It's a business receipt in which a man named Kushim signed for 29,086 measures of barley.
4X0Mg TIL that Africa's arbitrary borders, which make the continent look like a patchwork and are responsible for many ethnic conflicts up to this day, were "made" at the Berlin Conference (1885) by European leaders.
4krk6 [TIL] If you stretched an ATOM to the size of a football field, the NUCLEUS would be the size of a pea. The nucleus is extremely tiny yet very dense. It accounts for less than one ten-trillionth of the volume of an atom but about 99.9994% of an atom’s mass.
j4Wv TIL: A girl scout sold 117boxes in 2 hours in front of a pot dispensary.
GYWYG TIL blue LED lights are installed at certain Tokyo train stations to deter suicides. Research found the presence of blue lights resulted in an 84% decrease in suicides. Although the exact reason is unknown, it is theorized blue light has a positive calming effect on mood