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TIL Einstein proved that past events are not knowable with certainty [PDF]

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OGx1 TIL a highschool kid developed a better way to make fuel oil from algae.
JYOXV TIL of the Spotlight Effect, a psychological phenomenon where everyone is the center of their own universe, and has a microscope only on their own faults and mistakes. This results in others never even noticing nor remembering what we later regret doing or saying bc they only see their own mistakes.
6yKX TIL The Simpsons Movie is banned in Myanmar due to an edict banning the usage of the colors red and yellow in film
kOg54 TIL The 320th VLA was the only black combat unit to take part in the D-Day landings . The mission of the 621-man assault force was to raise hydrogen-filled barrage balloons to protect assaulting infantry and armor from being strafed by enemy aircraft .
OGQl7 TIL Pepsi lost a $1.26 billion judgement against Charles Joyce and James Voigt after they said the company had created Aquafina by stealing their idea to sell purified bottled water. This was then vacated after Pepsi lost the paperwork to the lawsuit.