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TIL To understand a pun, your brain' right and left hemispheres have to work together, due to the unique structure of it

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ADvng TIL Nigeria started a famine in 1968 that would kill 2-3 million people, prompting one of the largest humanitarian crises of all time. To which Nigeria responded "If the children must die first, then that is too bad, just too bad."
v0Rx TIL while not strictly legal, starting in the 1690s, British husbands used to sell their wives to end bad marriages. It was usually an auction announced by newspaper ad, to which the wife was led by a rope around her neck. Often the buyer was pre-arranged & the sale was a form of symbolic separation
VgDB TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one even became the first female to beat the top ranked male.
9Y5ZD TIL that NASA investigates giraffe blood system to improve suit for astronauts.
GYQOj TIL In 1920, the New York Times published an editorial titled "A Severe Strain on Credulity," mocking scientist Robert Goddard's contention that a rocket could conceivably leave the atmosphere and even reach the moon. They later printed a retraction, the day after the launch of Apollo 11.