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TIL the Myers-Briggs has no scientific basis whatsoever.

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PYp8Z TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman did not want his children to be "trust fund babies" so he did not create a trust. This resulted in a $12 million estate tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust fund.
16bl8 TIL the British pet massacre was a week-long event in 1939 in which an estimated 400,000 cats and dogs, a quarter of England's pet population, were killed so that food used for animals be reserved to prepare for World War II food shortages.
LQyKd TIL that Marlon Brando, who was a tech geek and an ace at ‘90s photoshop, loved to jokingly photoshop photos of his friends in random places. Brando was an early user of CoSa After Effects, the post-production program used for green screen and other effects work, which was eventually sold to Adobe.
BrOED TIL Refracting telescopes use the original telescope design by Galileo, with two lenses in a hollow tube. They can provide a crystal clear image for observing close celestial objects like moon and planets but not good for for deep sky objects, unlike reflector telescopes
X5EQ TIL only 32 teams successfully completed the final temple run on the Nickelodeon game show “Legends of the Hidden Temple”