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TIL using "pseudo profound bullshit titles" for artwork such as "Deaf Echo" made the artwork seem more profound regardless of the art quality.

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YpXOv TIL of Fedspeak, described as a 'turgid dialect of English' used by US government officials, notably Alan Greenspan, in order to avoid difficult questions on reports and statements
l9mG TIL Volvo invented the three point seat belt, then gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it.
9YkxQ "On average, the penguins dove 90.2 metres (98.64 yards) deep, but sometimes went as deep as 450 metres (492 yards)."
woJg6 TIL There was a home-made cryogenic “facility” in Colorado with one person in it since 1993.
N7EN6 TIL after the international ban on elephant ivory trade in 1990, China has been sourcing ivory from the fossils of mammoths in the melting permafrost of the Russian Arctic.