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TIL “Chicago” means “skunk land”

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RWMw TIL of the great filter theory. Which suggests the reason we can’t find advanced civilizations in our galaxy. Is because there is some factor or process preventing them from arising or prospering.
rRKDW TIL that Samuel L. Jackson’s famous role in Pulp Fiction was written specifically for him, as Quentin Tarantino wanted to work with him after he auditioned for Reservoir Dogs but didn’t get the part.
4XmnX TIL Between 1949 and 1951, the US and the UK airlifted 49,000 Yemenite Jews to safety in Israel
jN1Ma TIL that the IKEA effect is an actual cognitive bias in which consumers place more value on products they themselves created at least partially.
l79WA TIL that in 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, twelve of the fifteen Soviet republics competed as one team at both the 1992 Summer and Winter Olympic Games under the name the Unified Team.