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TIL Scientists and mathematicians test higher on autism spectrum

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BgJbx TIL Acadia (AD-42) was a Yellowstone class destroyer in the the United States Navy. She was the first ship to have a wartime mixed-sex crew and was nicknamed "The Love Boat" in the Persian Gulf War after 10% of its crew became pregnant during deployment.
ZQ4a TIL that most Icelandic people believe in elves or ‘hidden people’ and to this day they still stop construction work, if they hit a hidden people home.
OoKe1 Today I learned that the Germanic peoples, particularly the Vikings, often buried their dead in ships or boats. The largest discovered Viking ship grave is over 1000 years old and 65 feet long.
KOKlQ TIL about Carbon Chauvinism, a term coined by Carl Sagan which assumes that all extraterrestrial life must be made of carbon because carbon-based humans are unable to imagine life made of radically different biochemistries.
69Ypw TIL that Cape Fear was nominated for an MTV Best Kiss award for the scene between Robert DeNiro and Juliette Lewis, who's character is 15 in the movie