› added 6 years ago

97

TIL that eyewitness misidentification is the greatest contributing factor to wrongful convictions proven by DNA testing, playing a role in more than 70% of convictions overturned through DNA testing nationwide.

Read more innocenceproject.org

via reddit.com

kOjWB TIL our brain has shrunk over the past 20,000 years. On top of the gradual effects of modernisation on our brain size, chronic stress and anxiety will, if not attended to, shrink your brain further and far more rapidly than you might imagine.
e0G4 TIL - in 2009 Bill Gates purchased the rights to the Feynman Lectures so that he could annotate them and make them freely available.
R70E1 TIL Ronald Reagan regularly worked at his Century City office until 1999. Even as Alzheimer's eroded his mind, Reagan still would show up, sitting at his desk quietly reading the newspaper comics
YeD7 TIL The Norwegian Princess Leah was named after the Star Wars character Princess Leia. Leah being the Norwegian spelling of Leia.
grKy7 TIL that a type of Japanese water beetle can, when eaten by a frog, swim through the frog's digestive tract and escape through its anus