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TIL Alberto Brandolini, a programmer from Italy, in 2013 formulated the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle aka Brandolini's law which states: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it”. It highlights the difficulty of debunking bullshit.

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D9AV TIL the main point of a water tower is to provide water pressure, rather than water.
lYaK TIL there’s a man made pit in Nova Scotia. To this day, people don’t know what’s at the bottom of it.
E1vOd TIL Judge Judy’s audience are all paid actors.
YpR07 TIL Rodents Are Feasting On Newer Cars' Soy-Based Wiring Insulation
6En6Y We’ve been conditioned to think of Covid-19 as a respiratory disease—but it’s not just about the lungs. Evidence is emerging that the coronavirus can cause heart damage in people who’ve had mild symptoms or none at all, especially if those people exercise while they’re infected. If you've just had Covid—even if you didn't have symptoms—you need to be aware of myocarditis. That’s cardiologist-speak for what happens when the muscular walls of the heart become inflamed, weakening the organ and making it more difficult for it to pump blood. It’s not a newly discovered condition, and it turns up pretty rarely, but when it does, it’s most often triggered by an infection. Strenuous activity while the heart is weakened can cause swelling in the legs, dizziness, shortness of breath, and—in serious cases—irregular heartbeat, cardiac arrest, and sudden death.