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TIL France has banned children under the age of 15 to use their smartphones in school. This ban also includes smartwatches and tablets.

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EjVd TIL that Antartic explorer George Murray Levick in 1911-12 observed penguins’ sexual habits, which included sexual coercion, sex among males and sex with dead females; as these notes were deemed indecent for publication, he wrote them in Greek so that only an educated gentleman could read them
Ll0 TIL there is Play-doh Cologne.
QJOn6 TIL In 1946 a group of American benefactors purchased an original manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and donated it to the British Museum as a token of gratitude for Britain's stand against Hitler in WW2.
nWrQW TIL that women’s periods don’t magically sync with other women they’re in close proximity with. It’s just timing and confirmation bias.
nWWe7 TIL in 1966, Dr Cyril Wecht was the first person to discover that President JFK's brain had gone missing from the National Archives after his official autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland, 1963. The chief pathologist in Kennedy’s autopsy later admitted he destroyed autopsy notes.