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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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omjY TIL that in La Paz, Bolivia, there are isolated “hotel rooms” where alcoholics can, for a small fee, go to drink themselves to death without fear of interruption. Aptly, they are known as “Elephant Graveyards”.
NXvjE TIL that a Pokemon card with the move “Birthday Surprise”, a move that would deal more damage if it was the day your birthday, was banned from competitive play in order to stop people from faking their date of birth to cheat.
xjND TIL that the “Switch Witch” (aka the “Santa of October”) is something anti-candy parents are doing on Halloween. A child leaves out their bag of candy and the Switch Witch replaces it with an awesome toy.
Ypx6x TIL that when a random raccoon died in Toronto, people started paying their respects to it and build a small memorial with flowers and candles, even a picture, until the city took away the raccoon corpse.
wLV1W TIL during the first part of the Apollo program it was assumed that Mars would be the next phase after the Moon, so initial plans were created for a rocket larger than the Saturn V, called "Nova".