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R7D5Q TIL of Brandolini's Law which says that bullshit claims require an entire order of magnitude more effort to refute than that which produced them.
b61k0 Today I learned about The Dickins Medal for animals that show outstanding bravery and devotion. It has been awarded 75 times since 1943.
RvB9 TIL: A gay couple who were front and center in media supporting same-sex adoption later adopted a baby boy for the sole purpose of molesting him and did so for six years.
GYMbj TIL that Debbie Reynolds (19) had to kiss Gene Kelly (40) on the set of Singin’ in the Rain (1952). He jammed his tongue down her throat, which she had never expected or even heard of. Disgusted and outraged, she gagged, shrieked, and ran crying all the way back to her dressing room.
OGvOY TIL that when submarines were first introduced in European navies around 1900, Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, 1st Sea Lord of the British Navy, called them "underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English." He proposed that any submarine crew caght in wartime be hanged as pirates