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7PMO TIL that Randall Munroe, the artist of xkcd, was responsible for reddit’s comment sorting algorithm.
b4B0 TIL in a study of 200 people roleplaying a salary negotiation, men got higher salaries than women by $5,000. But when women were told they were negotiating as a mentor on behalf of a student, they drove bargains $11,000 higher than the men negotiating on behalf of themselves.
14e7 TIL Nazi Germany produced Chlorine Trifluoride for use as a dual purpose incendiary and poison gas in WW2. ClF3 causes almost anything to spontaneously explode on contact, including wood, concrete, sand, gravel, glass, asbestos, water, and of course flesh.
epd7n TIL that Norse people occupied and lived in Greenland before the Inuits (those descending from the Thule people of North America). Even so, the Inuits are considered the indigenous people of the island and they renamed all the cities from Danish when Greenland was granted home rule
19WX Today I learned that helping disadvantaged children does more to reduce homicide rates than being tough on crime.