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TIL: Closing your eyes when in complete darkness improves your overall perception

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PnOV TIL studying economics makes you less likely to cooperate with others when playing the Prisoners Dilemma. The more years you have studied economics, the more self-interested you become.
b66v4 TIL The Venus de Milo, as a Greek sculpture, would more accurately be called Aphrodite de Milos (Milos is the Greek island where it was discovered). Although it may also be a depiction of the sea goddess, Amphitrite.
e0bxL TIL that 40% of all Americans and 76% of African Americans are vitamin D deficient
daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.
xDEg TIL pronunciation of the letter “H” as either “haytch” or “aytch” was a sign of what religion you belonged to in Ireland (Catholic vs Protestant respectively)