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TIL Newsweek has not used fact-checkers since 1996.

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dg7Z TIL that it was illegal in Soviet Union to not have a job
x6kNg TIL The barrels of guns are so called because they were literally constructed like wooden barrels with hoops and staves, as can be seen in this blown out section of Mons Meg from 1449.
16JrO TIL that octopuses have three hearts and have blue-colored blood.
kQe TIL that when Mr. Incredible is chastizing Syndrome at the beginning of The Incredibles, he accidentally calls him Brodie. Syndrome is voiced by Jason Lee, who played the character Brodie in Mallrats.
9k5Q TIL that in an experiment, preschool children were assigned to either the “red” or the “blue” group and developed ingroup biased attitudes even though group assignment was random