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TIL of Cunningham’s Law: the idea that “the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”

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6E9aX TIL the song "Weightless" by Marconi Union is supposedly the most relaxing song in the world and is said to reduce anxiety.
x79g TIL that when the mathematician George Dantzig was studying in Berkeley, he solved two open problems in statistical theory which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture
BgmDx TIL about Cher Ami, a WWI homing pigeon who was shot through the chest, blinded in one eye, and flying with a nearly severed leg—yet still delivered a message that saved 194 men, earned a Croix de Guerre, and now rests in the Smithsonian.
bvA4 TIL that the first sensory deprivation tank was created in 1954. Since then people have experienced hallucinations, out of body experiences and even parallel universes while in these chambers.
9wN76 TIL a Pakistani city's police department deployed a unit of crime-fighting roller bladers, 10 men and 10 women