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TIL Good Judgement Project (GJP) that demonstrated certain "superforecasters" were better at predicting geopolitical and economic events than even experts in that field (even if they had classified info) based on HOW they thought about problems & ability to reduce basic biases experts tend to have.

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0wEwA TIL the left and the right only believe facts that follow their conditioned narrative, and completely silence, deplatform or block truth and factual information they oppose.
OoleR TIL about the Antarctica Treaty, which 54 countries are a part of, states that it’s primary purpose is “to ensure in the interests of all mankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord."
9YPpQ TIL: Lottie Williams is the only person to have been hit by re-entering space debris. She was walking through a park in Tulsa Oklahoma in Jan 1997 at 3:30 am and felt a tapping on her shoulder. It was a piece of the fuel tank of a Delta II rocket launched in 1996. She was unhurt.
9Y4om TIL that the Holy See (The Catholic Church) became the first legal partner to Hitler's regime. The Vatican and Nazis signed Reichskonkordat, a treaty which removed the German church from any continued role of opposition to Hitler, and required bishops to take an oath of loyalty to the German Reich.
WkPMN TIL about the Confederate Truce Flag, now housed at the National Museum of American History. It was preserved by General George Armstrong Custer, who was present at the surrender of Robert E. Lee.