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TIL That sunspots are correlated with revolutionary behavior and other human mass excitability events.

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Z8kBQ TIL the term "does not compute" originated as a catch phrase on the 1964 science fiction sitcom "My Living Doll"
YpowA TIL that writing by hand increases children's brain activity and makes them smarter
VMbQQ TIL about Benford's Law aka the first digit law which states in number sets all throughout nature including some very personal details about human beings; the aggregate numbers that will occur are in an almost predictable pattern.
B9Nk TIL Tsundoku is Japanese for buying books, but letting them pile up in one’s home without reading them.
N7V1E TIL in 2003 unknown Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman proved the long awaited Poincaré conjecture publishing it openly. He is the only person to reject Fields Medal, Clay Millennium prize of $1,000,000 and EMS prize. He has since vanished back to obscurity.