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TIL Karl Marx believed capitalism had the best chance of saving the world (but worried it was vulnerable to being overtaken by corporate fascism) which is why he wrote about it so much.

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Z8BKo TIL that psychopaths show immunity to "contagious yawning", where seeing someone else yawn makes you yawn as well.
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