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TIL Bipolar disorder may have been a climatic adaptation for humans to survive short summers (manic episodes for high productivity) and long winters (depression to slow metabolism).

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xVEDb TIL That The George Washington memorial statue in London is built on American soil, as Washington once said that he would “never stand on English soil ever again”.
oadL TIL there is an informal strategy called the “small penis rule” used by fiction writers to avoid libel suits by writting the character like the real person but with a small penis so nobody claims the character represents them
9wbNX TIL of the General Strike of 1842 when English workers went on strike, demanding their government act in their interest.
MeDN0 TIL: That Moores law states that the number of transistors per square inch doubles every 18 months not the processing power of the hardware
9YkLp TIL that cows are more deadly than sharks, being responsible for an average of 22 deaths per year, whereas sharks average around 5. Around 75% of the attacks were deliberate, and it’s is even estimated that around 5 of the 22 deaths caused by cows per year are carried by a group of these bovine.