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TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

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R74Yl TIL Socrates was very worried that the increasing use of books in education would have the effect of ruining students' ability to memorise things. We only remember this now because Plato wrote it down.
x6PZ5 TIL many of London’s streets were paved with wood
JYj14 TIL that old, weak, malnourished whales will simply sink, unable to reach the surface and suffocate to death...
b6pRQ TIL In 2019, a Dutch F-16 managed to shoot itself from behind. It managed to outrun it's own cannon fire, before the shells eventually caught it up, striking the fuselage.
XEoKj TIL that Americans still have a tax on their phone bill to pay for the 1898 Spanish-American war.