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TIL: The Dilbert Principle is the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work.

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PYN5V TIL Maniple was the basic tactical unit of Roman in the 3rd century BC (the polybian legion). a maniple consisted of two centuries. The centurion of the right-handed century had a right to choose the centurion of the left-handed century and was also in charge of the maniple
D1NAp TIL that in 2002 a UK man asked the court if he could settle his minor dirivng fine with a 'trial by combat', the court declined this request.
oB9XE TIL that the Spanish flu killed more people in 1 year than AIDS did in 40, and more than the bubonic plague did in a century.
OoKX6 TIL that as far as Jewish holidays go, Chanukkah is considered far less significant than other holidays like Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah.
e9bb TIL that Homer referred to the sea as “wine-dark” six times in his works and nobody’s really sure why (whether wine was blue, the sea was red, or Greeks were colorblind)