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01AL TIL the Pope sometimes names a new cardinal without telling anyone, even the cardinal; occasionally, the Pope takes the secret to his grave.
9a8m TIL that extensive child poverty is the main reason America’s children score poorly on international education measurements. When you measure the test scores of American schools with a child poverty rate of less than 20%, American children outperform every nation in the world.
LklLm TIL about hedonic adaptation, which is the tendency for people to return to a baseline happiness level regardless of what happens to them. A study conducted on lottery winners and paraplegics concluded that neither group was either happier or sadder less than 6 months after the event.
eakD TIL that Seth Rogen began working on the script for Super Bad when he was only 13 and finished a draft by age 15. The film began filming 10 years later.
woYV7 TIL By the time babies are crawling, their brains have already learned what accent their speech will become and that it's possible to adapt your own accent but you can never change it based on what your brain has decided it will be from that very VERY early age.