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TIL there is actually a law in Arizona called the “Stupid Motorist Law”

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4klyw TIL that Charvaka, a 6th century BCE Indian materialist school, was one of history’s earliest explicitly atheist philosophies, rejecting gods, the soul, and the afterlife in favor of direct perception and skepticism