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TIL sunshine has a larger effect on mental health than temperature or rain.

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YEY7 TIL that once the British 1881 census was compiled, officials noted an alarming rise in the number of individuals being reported as “deaf and dumb”. After enquiries were made, it transpired that many enumerators had recorded babies as being deaf and dumb simply because they could not speak.
Egn0d TIL: Family income is a large predictor of whether or not a student will graduate college
YBwP TIL that Ethiopia was the only African country that was never colonized
dDwAd TIL Even during cloudless days with clear air, you can see a bright ring around the Sun caused by the scattering of sunlight in the atmosphere. A coronagraph and visual skyphotometer can study the intensity of solar aureole
OoYK7 TIL The second man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, survived the fall but later died as a result of slipping on a piece of orange peel.