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nXyb TIL In addition to 6m Jews, the Nazis killed up to 11m others who did not fit the Aryan criteria
XEvGQ TIL that in 2019, scientists observed the radioactive decay of xenon-124. Described as an "ultra-rare event", Xenon's half-life is one of the slowest observed, with a decay time more than a trillion times longer than the history of the universe.
6JX7 TIL of the Horseshoe Theory. The idea is that the political spectrum isn’t a line, it’s more of a horseshoe shape. The extreme ends of the left and right are more similar to each other than moderate left and moderate right.
E1Apw TIL that US and British colonization of remote islands was driven by demand for bird poop used as fertilizer and in manufacture of gun powder.
ZwVQ TIL there is a term for the opposite of “ambidextrous”. It’s “ambisinister”, and it means you’re equally shitty with both hands.