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TIL that 2 dogs were executed for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials

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negaG TIL Colonizing Venus is not only possible but actually has the potential to be more practical than colonizing Mars
1Jo8 TIL there is a free online library with over a million ebooks available for “borrowing”
X0MX TIL that Charisma Carpenter of ‘Buffy’ stood up to a serial rapist and helped put him away for 50+ years, before she was famous
j9dE TIL of the term “Drawbridge Mentality”, a term used to describe people who move into a community they consider “unspoilt”, then oppose any form of inward migration and development.
ADa04 TIL World-renowned IMF economist Olivier Blanchard and former advocate of austerity admitted he was wrong—and wrote a paper explaining why—after every single country which adopted "significant austerity" suffered economically.