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TIL our sun rotates on it's axis once every ~27 days

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MZk7 TIL Kindergarten (literally “children’s garden”) while both a German word and a German invention widely adopted around the world is, ironically, not usually part of the German state-supported school system.
ANrxd TIL : Cows have 'best friends' and get stressed when seperated
Z8VLa TIL psilocybin was used to "reset" the activity of key brain circuits known to play a role in depression. Many depressed patients used computer analogies to describe their feelings after using the chemical, such as being 'defragged' like a computer hard drive, or like their brain had been 'rebooted'
x6lo7 TIL Alan Pinkerton fled to America for being associated with workers rights groups in Scotland. He aided John Brown, opposed slavery, and protected Lincoln from assassination plots. However, The Pinkertons would become most infamous for their violence and subterfuge of striking workers.
b9pxQ TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.