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TIL The Chilling Effect - If a society knows that they are constantly being monitored, it effects imagination and innovation and eventually the society reaches a point of stagnation

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1ay04 TIL although less talked about, the trauma of unexpectedly getting fired is very similar to the trauma of being left by a loved one.
e744 TIL that due to an oversight in the Constitution, the Vice President would preside over his own impeachment trial
YJ4A TIL C.W. Post (founder of Post cereals) suffered several mental breakdowns. His doctor’s name? John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of corn flakes.
69Bv8 TIL that novelist Graham Greene once entered a writing contest for Graham Greene parodies; he submitted three entries, one of which actually won (tied with four other entries).
wLK98 TIL of Civil War General John Sedgwick. After his soldiers began ducking for cover, Sedgwick rode into the open and declared "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance", before being shot and killed by an enemy sharpshooter.