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TIL “we only use 10% of our brains” is a completely made up ‘fact’

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R5W8w TIL of Manfred Ramminger, a German architect who stole an American missile for the Soviet Union by walking into a West German air base, hauling the missile out in a wheelbarrow, driving it wrapped in a carpet, and finally disassembling it and shipping it to Moscow through commercial airmail.
XOQj TIL the British tabloid The Sun heavily criticized Prime Minister Gordon Brown for misspelling the name of a deceased soldier in a letter of condolence to his mother. Brown apologized, and The Sun soon had to post an apology of its own for similarly misspelling the soldier’s name.
lDMr TIL a Dutch city known as Utrecht celebrated George Orwell’s 110 birthday by putting party hats on surveillance cameras.
nW9jr TIL about carbon credits, which can be purchased by companies and individuals to offset the carbon dioxide they produce.
X0Gbk TIL that in 1925, the major light bulb manufacturers of the world formed the Phoebus Cartel with the intent to lower bulb hours and raise prices