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TIL Poisoning the well is a rhetorical device where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say

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W79x8 TIL: Margaret Thatcher considered Tony Blair “her greatest achievement”
OG75Y TIL that Nicholas Hoult kept and framed Orlok's prosthetic penis worn by Skarsgård in the film Nosferatu (2024)
v1o47 TIL About Frank "Cannonball" Richards, a carnival performer whose act involved being shot in the stomach by a cannonball. He lived to the age of 81.
mxy1R TIL the Crusaders planned to finance the Fourth Crusade by stopping first in Constantinople, to assist in a coup. When they were not fairly compensated by the new Byzantine Emporer, they seized control of the city and surrounding territory. Establishing the short-lived Latin Empire (1204-1261).
m10P TIL That Mormon’s believe when Jesus Comes Back for the 2nd Time, he will rule from Jackson County, Missouri.