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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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6pjW TIL that President Harry S Truman’s middle name is just the letter S
XEwNR TIL that Iceland had a strike in 1975 called The Long Friday where women didn't do any work for a full day, paid or unpaid. And also learned Iceland is now ranked high in gender equality.
BgrvK TIL George H.W. Bush was nearly cannibalized by Japanese Senior Military during WWII in 1945
EpOp TIL Amethyst is Greek for “not intoxicated” because the stone was once thought to protect the owner from substance abuse.
R5Vb4 TIL the link between the nutcracker and Christmas was due to the popularity of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker." Which, when introduced to the US, "helped make nutcracker dolls a Christmas decoration and a seasonal icon across Western culture"