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TIL of the bullshit asymmetry principle: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

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r5Kx TIL of a blind experiment in which artists and an art historian couldn’t differentiate between modern art masterpieces and works by 4-year-olds. An artist described one of the children’s pieces as “a competent execution of abstract expressionism.”
wLVpo TIL that Switzerland has no president - instead it has a seven member Swiss Federal Council with shared power
mx9vY TIL 40 parakeets were released from an amusement park in Brussels in 1974, and while they shouldn't have survived (parakeets aren't indigenous in Europe) today there's more than 12,000 individuals
R5Vn6 TIL some Australian Leeches live exclusively on land, also having Two jaws
xVvx0 TIL in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Emerald City is not green but is just a regular city, and everyone who enters it is forced to wear green-tinted glasses.