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TIL : These 100 Illustrated Cognitive Biases Have Changed How I Think

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nYA9 TIL that Michel Siffre, a French scientist, contributed to the understanding of the endogenous biological clock, also called circadian clock, by staying two months cloistered in the abyss of Scarasson without time cues on a glacier from July 1962.
oRrK TIL there was 5 different species of human living on the planet as recently as 30000 years ago
x60J1 TIL in the African country of Equatorial Guinea, they are building a new city called Ciudad de la Paz to replace the current capital, Malabo, because the new capital is on the mainland of the country making access to the capital easier since the current capital is on an island far from the mainland.
AZ7 TIL Sally Ride was not the first women in space ,Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) was.
loj65 TIL: In the 1880s, the Fenian Brotherhood, Irish separatists living in the US, commissioned John Holland to build a submarine to attack British ships. Due to a legal dispute, they refused to pay for the submarine, stole it, couldn't pilot it, and Holland refused to teach them.