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TIL Curtis Yarvin, also known as Mencius Moldbug, founded the "Dark Enlightenment" movement, which argues for replacing democracy with a techno-monarchy.

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69Kmm Til raw kidney beans are toxic. Undercooked kidney beans are even more toxic. Can cause severe nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, and abdominal pains.
8aR4G TIL In 1929 hockey player Eddie Shore, after missing his train, drove 350 miles through a blizzard to a game. The car's chains broke twice, the wipers broke, he removed the top half of the windshield, and crashed into a ditch. He still made it and scored the game's only goal.
KYNga TIL that both George Washington and Ben Franklin disagreed with the Boston Tea Party, and Franklin even offered to pay the British back for the destruction of the tea
YGe7 TIL when Gangnam Style surpassed ~2.15 billion views on Youtube, the View Counter went negative, causing Youtube to release a statement saying “We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met PSY.”
M75NB TIL that the Final Ballroom Dance in Beauty and the Beast (1991) reuses animation straight from Sleeping Beauty (1959). Disney insisted that it was done not to save money, but to save time.