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TIL about Gödel's Loophole; A loophole that famous mathematician, Kurt Gödel supposedly discovered in the American Constitution that would allow for the legal transition of American democracy to a dictatorship.

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XEdyR TIL about Decimal Time. Implemented during the French Revolution, it was thought up to simplify time and better regulate work. Clocks/calendars were changed so that a week now had 10 days, a day had 10 hours, an hour had a 100 minutes, and a minute had a 1000 seconds.
oB1or TIL that according to Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game Risk, especially while on LSD.
jYQa TIL the first Thanksgiving in North America was held in 1578 in what is now Canada which happened 43 years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock.
0dddA TIL that the DeFeo family (Amityville Horror) was “mobbed up”. Ronald DeFeo Sr. was the nephew of powerful Genovese captain Peter “Philie Aquilino” DeFeo (pictured below) who was one of their top earners in his prime.
ADvRd TIL that owning the Sims base game and every Stuff Pack, Game Pack, and Expansion Pack costs over $785