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VMm9k TIL using the outward setting on a stapler is called "pinning", and it's meant for temporary staples that are easy to remove without mangling the paper.
rRD1x TIL: Embodied cognition. A counterintuitive concept in cognitive science, which says that not only is the mind and body interconnected but that the body actively influences the mind thereby shaping how we process our surroundings and environment.
ZpwOR Today I learned that all but one country in the UN has ratified or accepted the rights articulated for children in the UNCRC treaty. The one country who hasn't is the United States.
n6vd TIL Tommy Prince a native american who served in WW2 was so quiet because of his pair of moccasins. Sometimes instead of killing Germans, he’d steal something from them. Other times, he’d slit their throats and not make a sound.
bd77 TIL a four year old boy named Bobby Dunbar went missing on a family trip, 8 months later he was found and reunited with his family. Nearly 100 years later, DNA proved that the child reunited with the Dunbar family was not Bobby but rather a boy named Charles Anderson