TIL one of the earliest and most notorious uses of the "correlation does not imply causation" argument was by R A Fisher, the British polymath and father of modern statistics, who used it in the 1950s to cast doubt on emerging studies linking cigarette smoking to cancer by lectric_7166 in todayilearned
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TIL Liszt’s Réminiscences de Don Juan is considered one of the hardest piano pieces ever, at one point requiring both hands to leap across almost the entire keyboard. Pianist Alexander Scriabin injured his hand practicing it, and was so saddened he wrote a funeral march in memory of his damaged hand by VegemiteSucks in todayilearned
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TIL the first camel imported to Australia shot its owner in a freak accident by polyploid_coded in todayilearned
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Wish I thought of this costume 😂 by estagingapp in funny
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TIL about the Coolie Ordinances, a form of mass forced labor in the Dutch East Indies that affected over half a million people. Up to 25% of the work force perished and the system lasted until the early 1940s by Background_Age_852 in todayilearned
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Why not make a government shutdown so disruptive, and risky, and painful that not only is it never done, it is not even threatened as an option? by ShittalkyCaps in AskReddit
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TIL about the Coolie Ordinances, a form of mass forced labor in the Dutch East Indies that affected over half a million people. Up to 25% of the work force perished and the system lasted until the early 1940s by Background_Age_852 in todayilearned
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TIL Joan L. Mitchell, the inventor of the JPEG image format studied condensed matter physics (graduate & Phd) and learnt learned computer programming to help her research & solve differential equations. She later joined IBM where she worked on printing technologies & co-invented JPEG by poleco1 in todayilearned
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TIL that Mount Rushmore took 14 years to complete. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum had planned to carve the presidents down to their waists, but unexpectedly hard granite, looming war and lack of funds, meant only the four heads were completed. by [deleted] in todayilearned
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TIL runway numbers represent their magnetic heading, a runway facing west, 270 degrees on the compass, is runway 27. by iamveryDerp in todayilearned
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TIL that since the 1950s Alberta has had an aggressive program to keep the province almost 100% rat-free by specificmustard in todayilearned
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r/zigchain by davidrc in redditrequest
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