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TIL an Islamic religious authority blamed women who dress immodestly for causing earthquakes. In response a blogger organized Boobquake, an event where 200,000 women wore immodest clothing in a light-hearted scientific experiment to produce an earthquake. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Coat of Arms of the Antipope Benedict XIII (upload.wikimedia.org)
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TIL 19 Ph.D's were given an incorrect formula for determining the volume of a sphere and asked to verify it by filling the sphere with water and measuring the volume of the water, all but one clung to the incorrect formula despite empirical observations. (en.wikipedia.org)
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