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TIL “The Matrix” is based on the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard. However, after watching it he replied: “The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.”

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16vP4 TIL that members of Congress receive annual allowances of $3.7M for senators and $1.4M for representatives, in addition to their salaries
gMRd9 TIL That the oldest “your mom” joke was found in Iraq in 1976 and is over 3500 years old
vPQrR TIL in the 1910s, Booker T. Washington witnessed the working conditions of child sulfur miners in Sicily. He was horrified, describing it as a “Physical hell”, and compared it to American slavery which he was born into in 1856.
Y7xPB TIL there is a large Dietz & Watson deli meats recall
kObvW TIL that the direct opposite part of the world from where you are is called your ‘antipode’ and the vast majority of the USA’s antipode is actually in the Indian Ocean.