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TIL: Nearly all adaptations of Gullivers Travels only focus on his journeys to the lands of the very tiny and very huge people. The novel contains more adventures - a flying island of scientists, and an island of sentient horses.

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JwaV TIL that African soldiers fighting against the Japanese in Burma during WWII appropriated and manipulated the rumors that they were cannibals. To demonstrate this, soldiers pretended to eat the ‘meat’ of fallen soldiers so that remaining survivors would flee in fear
wbv7 TIL Some cultures speak in geographic, not egocentric terms, giving them superhuman orientation. Instead of asking you to “shift left” a little bit, they would request you “slide a little to the east” (or whatever the applicable direction was)
mXlo TIL that Ronald Reagan, suffering from Alzheimers, would rake leaves for hours, not realizing that they were being constantly replenished by his Secret Service men
O1v6 TIL Dumb people over estimate their abilities. Smart people under estimate their abilities. Dunning-Kruger.
Pwew TIL that halfway between the U.S. and Australia, there is a concrete sarcophagus called the Runit Dome. Essentially an American version of the Chernobyl sarcophagus, constructed to deal with lingering radioactivity within the Enewetak Atoll, site of 111,000 cubic yards of irradiated debris.