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TIL about Muphry’s law. It states that a written​ criticism of editing will always contain an editing error.

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LyJ9 TIL rape in the US has been declining rapidly for 40 years.
1amR4 TIL, that the Queen banned a documentary about the British Royal Family in 1969 which aired only one time in British Television and was locked away in BBC's Vault. But the banned documentary has now reappeared to the public.
rr01 TIL that astrophysicist Carl Sagan and his wife would smuggle books about the history of the Russian Revolution into the USSR so that their colleagues could read them, since recorded history lessons in Russia were actively manipulated by Joseph Stalin at the time.
jNmdv TIL Isaac Newton got swept up in the investing madness of the South Seas Bubble and lost out to the tune of ~£20 000 000 (in today's money)
WvrA TIL when TGI Friday’s announced their $10 Endless Appetizers deal, a woman sat in a Friday’s for 14 hours eating plate after plate of mozzarella sticks to see if they were truly “endless”. They were.