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TIL Argentina forbade teacing Venn Diagrams in schools as the concepts of intersection and collaboration were considered subversive

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Z5Jo TIL Hallucinatory ‘voices’ shaped by local culture. In the U.S.A., voices are harsh and threatening while those heard by schizophrenics in Africa and India tend to be more benign and playful.
8e0Kb TIL Weed is not as harmless as people claim.
mxO0y TIL Alfred Nobel, of the Nobel Prize lost his brother to an accident at his lab. They were working with liquid nitrogen and attempting to create a more stable explosive. Nobel was able to complete his research after the accident and invented dynamite.
d80EQ TIL about Marinos Mitralexis, a Greek WW2 pilot who downed an Italian bomber by ramming when out of ammo, made an emergency landing and arrested the surviving bomber crew with his pistol.
ZwZY TIL that the Nobel prize is sometimes called No-Bell prize because Joycelyn Bell Burnell did not share in the 1974 Nobel Prize for the first observation of radio pulsars, despite the fact that she was the one who had actually observed them.