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TIL about the Streisand effect, phenomenon in which an attempt to censor, hide, or otherwise draw attention away from something only serves to attract more attention to it. ( www.britannica.com )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1d1uv2u/til_about_the_streisand_effect_phenomenon_in/...

TIL the most infamous form of the lobotomy was not the original technique. ( www.britannica.com )

Author: /u/SandHanitizer667...

Today I learned that astronauts heading to the International Space Station (ISS) must learn Russian as a second language. ( www.britannica.com )

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1co64p5/today_i_learned_that_astronauts_heading_to_the/...

The History of Sega on Britannica ( www.britannica.com )

Israel - how it came to be ( www.britannica.com )

TIL May Day, not on the same day as US Labor Day, started "in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886)." ( www.britannica.com )

In 1889 an international federation of socialist groups and trade unions designated May 1 as a day in support of workers, in commemoration of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago (1886). Five years later, U.S. Pres. Grover Cleveland, uneasy with the socialist origins of Workers’ Day, signed legislation to make Labor Day—already...