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TIL that the chances of getting published in The New Yorker are about 0.0000416 percent.

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BVGe TIL street dogs in Moscow have learned how to navigate the subways.
BJBb TIL Bertrand Russel said “in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt”. This is actually a bias called the Dunning–Kruger effect which says unskilled individuals feel an illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their analysis to be much better than it is.
MeEMW TIL That the Paraguayan Department of 'Presidente Hayes' was named after 19th U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes.
epKmn TIL about Whittier, Alaska. Most of the town lives in 1 building, called the Begich Towers Condominium, thus giving Whittier the nickname “town under one roof”
e0xvL TIL pedestrianism was a famous sport in the 19th century where people would compete to walk the furthest distance in the shortest amount of time. A famous challenge was walking 1000 miles in 1000 hours, first completed by Robert Barclay Allardice in 1809.