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TIL that Sharbat Gula, the "Afghan girl" whose eyes captured the world, sees a new life and finds a new voice in Italy

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Jy81 TIL a volcanologist died at an observation camp when Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980. He had agreed, for one day, to fill in for a colleague who was rotating out a third scientist based at the camp. The man rotated out died 11 years later during the Mount Unzen (Japan) eruption.
0oQp TIL the more likely a man can grow a beard, the greater the risk he will go bald.
OonVL TIL of Julian Jaynes's "Bicameral Mind Theory" which suggests that ancient humans were not self aware and that the right hemisphere communicated with the left via auditory hallucinations. These voices may have been interpreted as "gods" by early humans.
vPBAr TIL that Saint Nicholas’ reputation as a secret gift-giver originates from him discreetly funding three poor girls’ dowries so that they wouldn’t be forced into prostitution.
p80k8 TIL a Revolutionary-era wooden ship was found on the site of the World Trade Center during excavations after 9/11