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TIL Mozart sold more CD’s than Kanye, Beyonce and Drake in 2016.

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jNj1Q TIL of a study that examined the brains of nuns who engaged in “centering prayer,” which is meant to create a feeling of oneness with God. The nuns’ brain scans showed similarities to people who use drugs like psilocybin mushrooms.
P1nKV TIL there are freshwater jellyfish in nearly every state in the USA and there have been since the early 1900s
pnMQ TIL that during the Winter War 1939, one exceptionally burly Finnish ski trooper immobilized a Soviet tank with nothing but a crowbar, prying the treads off by brute force.
5YBwD TIL about Richard Lynn, a psychologist that produced various controversial studies that attempted to map IQ levels based on race. He believes that some races are more inherently psychopathic than others. Critics have labelled him as the face of scientific racism.
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