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TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”

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VMrJB TIL that tea is either a derivative of cha or chay in over 65 languages
npNo TIL Former U.S President Jimmy Carter helped to reduce the Guinea Worm Disease cases from 3.5 million to 126. This disease is now at the brink of extinction.
Ka4Q TIL that ‘Gangnam style’ was intended to poke fun at people who put on airs and pretended to be fashionable or classy, like people from the Gangnam district of Seoul
g7AA TIL that during depression you see less contrast, making the world really appear greyer
LQDvV TIL about the Future Library project, a public artwork to collect an original work by a popular writer every year from 2014 to 2114. The works will remain unread and unpublished until 2114. 1000 trees were planted to supply the paper for the published books at the project's conclusion.