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TIL Ben Stein ardently opposes evolution, going so far to call it “a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies.”

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OobQ6 TIL about Capt Mamo Habtewold and the over 3000 other Ethiopian soldiers who fought with the Americans in the Korean war due to Haile Selassie's belief in global cooperation and the UN
glv4 TIL a man was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank automatically accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
781JM TIL: A geochron is an analog clock that displays day and night on a world map, changing over the course of the day, showing the familiar “bell curve” of light and darkness
gQBA TIL Steven Sasson invented the digital camera in 1975 but his bosses at Kodak never let it see the light of day
KYwG TIL that ironically, the majority of the world’s chopsticks are made in America. Georgia, to be exact.