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TIL that higher carbon dioxide levels actually make us stupider

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NO5P TIL: A programmer was hired by a Florida congressman to rig electronic voting machines in previous elections with a 49%/51% outcome. The code was not detectable. This is the video of his testimony under oath.
DDAr TIL that Garrett Hardin, author of “The Tragedy of the Commons” later acknowledged that having resources shared in common did not inevitably end badly, and that he should have titled his essay “The Tragedy of the Unmanaged Commons”
loe67 TIL that in 1665, the University of Cambridge temporarily closed due to the Bubonic plague. Isaac Newton had to work from home, where he used that time to develop calculus and the theory of gravity.
G8K1 TIL Euro banknotes have architectural styles depicted on them, and they start with the earliest style on the lowest denomination and go through to the latest on the largest denomination
01GM TIL that in 2011, archeologists in Italy found the buried remains of a couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.