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TIL of Hanlon's razor which states: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

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MnO0 TIL that Firefox and Chrome users stay in their jobs 15 percent longer than their Safari and IE counterparts.
n1Md TIL that Jaime Sin, a Roman catholic archbishop of Manila was named Cardinal by the pope. Thus giving him the titel “Cardinal Sin”. He also used to greet guests with the frase “Welcome to the house of Sin”.
p8R8 TIL penguins are one of the most sexually deviant animals.
mxGGO TIL, in 1915 William Wrigley invented direct marketing by mailing complimentary sticks of Doublemint gum to every household (1.5million) listed in every phone book in the states. He repeated that in 1919 mailing gum to 7 million households.
WQ4X TIL that from 1904 to 1925, a cartoon called “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” ran in a New York paper. It featured bizarre nightmares, and among other things pioneered the idea of giant characters destroying a city. It has been called “perhaps the most bizarre newspaper feature in American history”.