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TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.

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1Ek7 TIL in 2002 a 15-year-old boy tried to replicate the attacks on 9/11 by crashing a plane into an office building
yLBV TIL that Anna Jarvis, the woman who founded Mother’s Day, tried to get the holiday revoked when companies began to commercialize it for profits.
WWy4 TIL that the word lunatic comes from people thinking that the moon could cause madness.
6QZ TIL criminals use google reviews to rate their incarceration experiences
QNlrL TIL about the International Affective Picture System (IAPS), a large set of photos with subjects from the mundane (a basket or someone at the beach) to the provocative (burn victims or erotic nudes) used by researchers to elicit and study various emotional responses.