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TIL Psychologists think you can be either social or analytical at one time - and those factors suppress each other. If you’re being social, your analytical skills are suppressed, and vice versa.

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YpXgx TIL real Christmas trees are more environmentally friendly than artificial, despite the latter 'saving' a tree
5Vlrr TIL the US army would take dead bodies that were donated by family for the purpose of medical research and instead use them to test the destructiveness of bombs
epnwn TIL that back in 2010, the White House had to assure people that the President's upcoming State of the Union address would not conflict with the season premiere of LOST (season 6)
4WBw TIL Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a meeting room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings.
GA1r7 TIL of the Vipeholm Experiments in Sweden. In the 1950s, intellectually disabled people were fed sweets to see whether sugar caused cavities. While unethical, this study greatly contributed to what we know about dental health.