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TIL Stupidity is in essence not an intellectual defect but a moral one

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yQa5X TIL that liverpool fc chose nike instead of new balance, even though the money offert was the same, because nike offered lebron, s. williams and drake as marketers for liverpool fc [meaning that the 3 will use social media to promote the club and will wear liverpool fc shirts in public]
dDNwB TIL ATMs have a timeout - wait too long to take your cash, and it pulls it back in
5VM4D TIL a classmate of Anne Frank, Theo Coster (Morris Simon, 1928-2019), founded with his wife Ora (1931-2021) a game design company which invented popular games such as Guess Who?, Zingo! and the breast-inspired Pop-It fidget toy. Their headstones were made to resemble the Guess Who? flip-up frames.
KOQE6 TIL London literally had a “train of the dead”. Called the London Necropolis Railway, the company and train line were formed to transport London’s freshly deceased (as well as living mourners) to Brookwood Cemetary, 23 miles away
APLd TIL the first country to send a man-made object into space was Nazi Germany in 3 October 1942