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TIL the Meyers-Briggs personality test was developed by a mother and daughter team, neither of whom had any formal psychology education. They studied agriculture and political science respectively.

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jNkVX TIL humans struggle to understand true randomness
grV14 TIL that British mathematician Lord Kelvin was so confident in his abilities, he once is said to have sent a servant to find out who was the second-highest scoring student in a mathematical competition at the University of Cambridge. The servant returned and replied "You were, sir".
LQV7Q TIL about Avoidance Speech, a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives