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TIL that many believe that Freud ignored his patients being victims of sexual abuse, which would cause drastic misinterpretation of his findings.

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9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
eL75 TIL in 2013 a NJ city councilwoman was tricked into believing the Blue Waffle Disease was real and a threat to her city, so she asked the city council what they were going to do about it.
L7dQ TIL during mating season, male Dawson’s bees try to bite each other to death in a frenzy, resulting in “whole generations of male bees wiping each other out” & in 1 male emerging to mate with the female. Dawson’s bees communities are harmonious for most of the year because all the males are dead.
4EPo TIL: While fighting in WWI, British soldier Henry Tandley spared the life of a wounded German soldier. The wounded German soldier ended up being Austrian corporal Adolf Hitler.
0aJ5 TIL The Simpsons was nearly cancelled before its first episode. When the first episode came back, the animation was so appalling that the staff considered halting show production. 70% of the animation had to be redone before it could air.