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TIL weathervanes point to where the wind is coming FROM, not the direction it’s blowing.

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oRg6K TIL 5-time chess world champion Vishy Anand was India’s first GM and held the No. 1 national ranking for 37 years until September 2023, now there are 3 Indian chess players, including the reigning world chess champion, in the world top 6 and semi retired Vishy is still ranked world No. 13.
mxJYp TIL that the USSR has missiles pointed at a hot dog stand in the Pentagon because they believed it led to a top secret meeting room
rNQEw TIL the 1522 Affair of the Sausages sparked the Reformation in Zürich when pastor Huldrych Zwingli defended eating sausage during Lent, arguing from Martin Luther’s doctrine of sola scriptura that Christians are free to fast or not, since the Bible does not forbid eating meat in Lent.
6w0X TIL King Solomon had a net worth around $2.1 trillion dollars today. He received 25 tons of gold yearly (one ounce of gold costs $1320 today, a ton is 32,000 ounces.) He ruled for 40 years.
XE9QR TIL of the "Buddhabrot set", a plot of points that are not in the fractal Mandelbrot set, that under certain plotting settings looks similar to a picture of a sitting Buddha.