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TIL drinking alcohol DOES improve your ability to speak a foreign language.

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wa7Y TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with turning base metal to gold that samples of his hair showed mercury levels up to 40 times higher than average. This is considered to be the reason he went mad in his later years.
N7Mje TIL that Prudence Crandall was a school teacher in Connecticut who made history in 1832 when she accepted and African American girl, Sarah Harris, into her class, making it the first integrated school house in the US.
XEDm8 TIL Moore's Law states the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every 2ys, however, it's balanced out by Binn's Law, which states: As technology advances, rendering time remains constant. Because the more machines are capable of, the more we throw at them.
p8PmQ TIL During his Presidency, John Quincy Adams planned on funding an expedition to the center of the earth to establish a trade route with mythical “Mole People.”
lovL5 TIL that In October 1971, a physicist and an astronomer took 4 cesium-beam atomic clocks aboard commercial airliners. They flew twice around the world and when reunited, the sets of clocks were found to disagree according to the predictions of the relativity theory