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TIL: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." it is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion;

QNv0p TIL The world's oldest love poem, The Love Song for Shu-Sin a.k.a. Istanbul 2461, was written in a cuneiform tablet and used in sacred fertility rituals.
oRgJR TIL that in 1970 British Rail submitted a patent for a flying saucer designed to be an interplanetary vehicle powered by nuclear fusion. It was originally proposed as a lifting platform and by the time the patent was filed it had been revised to become a large passenger craft for space travel.
9YOym TIL that the term “mental retardation” which we now deem “inappropriate”, was a medical term for people with intellectual impairments, invented to replace terms that were more offensive. The American Association on Mental Retardation introduced it to be a neutral term in 1961.
o7kW TIL Batman the Animated Series had a unique drawing style. The animators used light colors on black paper, the complete opposite of the animation industry standard.
OoK1R TIL that Jean-Marc Bosman, whose football transfer led to a ruling that completely changed European football (allowing players to freely move after their contracts end, and making foreign player quotas illegal), ended up bankrupt, his marriage ruined, depressed, alcoholic, and now relies on handouts