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TIL: Teams that disagree more perform better than those which do not

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OkeL TIL a 22-year-old woman died after receiving a silicone butt injection in a pay-by-the-hour hotel. The coroner found that the silicone went into her veins and asphyxiated her, and the woman who injected her was charged with manslaughter.
no1o TIL that the ripples in icicles are formed because of salt in the water. An icicle formed from pure water would be smooth.
XEnJE TIL of Andrew Mellon's "scientific taxation" policy: during the 1920s, the U.S. government paradoxically increased its tax receipts by $300 million after cutting taxes to zero for all but the wealthiest 2% — and then reducing their taxes, too.
yVZyX TIL Shrek was based on a picture book originally published in 1990.
nQKd TIL of a monk who had taken an old book written by Archimedes, erased the contents, and wrote over it with prayers. Scientists have determined that that monk erased a previously unknown book by Archimedes, that laid out the foundations of Calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz.