› added 1 year ago

179

TIL Millie and Christine McKoy Were Conjoined Twins Born Into Slavery

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4kL66 TIL the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” is named Elwood Edwards and as of 2016 was an Uber driver in Cleveland
0d1BN TIL Bangladesh is the most populous country never to have won an Olympic medal
8eP5L TIL there is a CITY (was a town) in Texas named “Cut and Shoot”.
grEeD TIL that the species of bear depicted on the California State Flag has been extinct since 1924. Similar in size to the Kodiak Bear, the California Grizzly Bear was aggressive, commonly weighed over 1,000 pounds, averaged 8 ft tall and could run 35 mph.
JYMJk TIL the steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of the straw man argument. The idea is to find the best form of the opponent's argument to test opposing opinions. Steelmanning will make you better at arguing and improve your critical thinking.