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TIL: Nominative Determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names

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WkmjX TIL About an experiment done between 1929-1935 that found that students only needed 1 year of Math in Grade 6 to perform just as well as other students that had been doing Math lessons for 6 years.
awgRb TIL - three quarters of all U.S. farms account for only 4 percent of product sales, making the notion of "family farmers" who deserve subsidies obsolete to our food supply
lGW7 TIL that when local pagans were angered by a giant figure of Homer Simpson that was painted next to the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset, UK as a publicity stunt for The Simpsons Movie, producer Al Jean remarked “this is the last religion we can possibly upset. Now we’ve got all of ‘em”.
pYmwA TIL that we can reduce land use associated with cattle production by 92% (1.2 ha/tonne down from 14.2 ha/tonne) by raising them in silvopasture, an ancient practice in which cattle are raised on the same land as perennial tree crops.
4XWYN TIL that Thailand is in the year 2563. They use Buddhist calendar instead of the gregorian calendar explaining the 543 year difference