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TIL That the word Oxymoron is a oxymoron in its self, Oxy meaning sharp and Moron meaning dull.

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Y8Rd TIL that male waterfowl have a clockwise corkscrew penis. Female waterfowl have evolved a counterclockwise shaped vagina. This makes sex difficult for the waterfowl. Female waterfowl evolved non-complementary sexual organs as a defense mechanism because male waterfowl try to rape them so often.
8arDZ TIL that Decision theory is the study of an agent's choices. Decision theory can be broken into two branches: normative decision theory, which analyzes the outcomes of decisions or determines the optimal decisions given constraints and assumptions.
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