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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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mXAM TIL that in 1978 a Russian scientist was accidentally shot through the head by particle accelerator. He lived, but the shot side of this face is now paralyzed and does not age.
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