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TIL Jimmy Buffett saved Colin Jost's Life in 2014
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TIL that there is a psychological phenomenon called the Backfire Effect. Essentially, the more you try to convince someone they are wrong using facts and figures, the more convinced they become that their preexisting beliefs are correct.
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TIL that there is an impact crater over 25 miles in diameter buried beneath Chesapeake Bay which was revealed in 1993 from oil drilling data, and that prior to impact many, many moons ago, Richmond, VA was covered in thick tropical rainforest
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TIL : about the game "Foldit", a puzzle game about protein folding. In 2011, its gamers helped decipher a protein of a HIV-like virus, solving a scientific problem that went unsolved for 15 years in as little as 10 days.
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TIL In 2001 Kim ‘Dotcom’ purchased €375,000 of shares of a nearly bankrupt company, announced he would invest €50 million in the company, and caused the share value to jump nearly 300% . He sold his shares a few days later for €1,568,000. He’d never had the money available to invest.
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TIL: Australia had an unofficial mascot during the 2000 Olympics named “Fatso the Fat Arsed Wombat” who not only appeared in one of the races but also had a statue which sold for A$80,450.