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TIL about the Law of Triviality (aka bike-shedding) where the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum [of the money] involved.

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YpNdr TIL F Lee Bailey was featured in a television special in which he examined various people on the "Paul is dead" rumor. One of them was Fred LaBour, who had been instrumental in the spread of the rumor. LaBour told Bailey pre-show that he had made the whole thing up.
wod17 TIL that the Toba Supervolcano which almost wiped out humanity 77,000 years ago has a magma chamber containing over 50,000 cubic kilometres of eruptible magma, more than four times the volume of Lake Superior.
nnv9 TIL Corgi’s are (still used in some parts of the USA) used to herd cattle as they are too short to be kicked by cows.
XEoVE TIL That in The Great Gatsby, Gatsby gave himself the name "Jay" because he believed it sounded upper-class and sophisticated, while in reality, the term "jay" was used as an insult during the early 1900s (when the novel took place) to describe an ignorant or inexperienced person.
PYgVV TIL that people with ADHD have hyper-focus ability for things that they like