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TIL Hitchens’ razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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KYo4Q TIL the world record for the longest time spent under totality (full solar eclipse) is 74 minutes. A group of scientists rode the supersonic Concorde that flew Mach 2 chasing the 1973 Solar Eclipse over Northern Africa.
rMwo TIL that Leisure Suit Larry was based off of a real Sierra employee named Gary, a traveling salesman who “always came back from his sales trips full of stories about his latest sexual conquests”
xK1o TIL Tom and Jerry commited suicide in the final episode, after both being rejected by their female partners. It was the only episode where Jerry was able to speak.
D1ykJ TIL of a 1698 beard tax in Russia, in which authorities were authorized by Emperor Peter I to publicly shave individuals who did not pay the tax on their beards. The tax was designed to make Russian men conform to Western European notions of grooming.
WkyLA TIL that Silvio Berlusconi (ex-Italian prime minister) openly insulted Finnish cuisine. In response; a group of Finnish chefs created a smoked reindeer based pizza, named it after him and won 1st place in the ameria's plate international pizza contest. The Italian-American team only came second.