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TIL Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt developed a card-based method for promoting creativity and brainstorming called "Oblique Strategies," which would give generic aphorisms/instructions to apply to any creative process

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aVW9 TIL The world’s next tallest tower of all time will be built by the Bin Laden family.
D1WQr TIL that at 36 letters, the second longest word in the English language is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which ironically enough means the fear of long words.
4kO4b TIL when Prince Rupert was shot in the head, his commander said "Monsieur, I am most annoyed that you are wounded." to which Rupert responded "And me also" His commander was killed shortly afterwards. Rupert would recover.
0wPyj TIL a small war was fought between the 3 original settlements that would become Milwaukee. Even today the bridges downtown are crooked because each settlement refused to acknowledge the street layout of the settlements on the other side of the river.
6EO0w TIL When the Soviet Union collapsed records were found that showed that they had been intentionally inciting the black community in the US and Africa, including falsely teaching black people that America created AIDS to kill them off.