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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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yV7ov TIL 37 is the most common number people choose when asked to think of a random number between 1 and 100 (according to the Stanford / MIT Jargon file)
b6ENa TIL that typical cloud weighs around a million tonnes, has a volume of around 1km3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m3.
kLbB TIL that the streets of Seattle Washington were elevated in the 19th century leaving a network of underground tunnels and basements that use to be ground level.
MLJm TIL that, when the bible references a person putting their hand under someone else’s thigh when making an oath, they were actually cupping–and swearing on–their testicles. Evidently this custom is what led to the term “testify”, being derived from “testicles”.
neY8o TIL That a study on drinking alcohol found that the amount of shrinkage in the hippocampus — the brain area associated with memory and reasoning — was related to the amount people drank. Those who had four or more drinks a day had almost six times the risk of hippocampal shrinkage as did nondrinkers