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

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KOPW9 TIL An electric scooter firm in Mexico City temporarily ceased operations in 2019 because so many of its two-wheeled units have been stolen. The company said in a statement that "at present, the theft of our scooters in Mexico City is the biggest challenge."
rNEPy TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.
mm9M TIL that in 1860, futurologists predicted that NYC would not exist in 100 years because the present growth rate indicated 6 million people, and they would need 6 million horses, and they could not handle that amount of manure.
nejGY TIL that in the UK April Fools' Day ends at noon
Zbp4 TIL a Human Nutrition professor ate mainly Hostess snack cakes for two months to prove That in weight loss, pure calorie counting is what matters most – not the nutritional value of the food.