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TIL Socrates was very worried that the increasing use of books in education would have the effect of ruining students' ability to memorise things. We only remember this now because Plato wrote it down.

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nyrd TIL When LulzSec hacked Nintendo, neither reported that any valuable information was taken. LulzSec did not mean harm to Nintendo saying: “We’re not targeting Nintendo. We like the N64 too much — we sincerely hope Nintendo plugs the gap.”
LQk9m TIL that Hugo Ferdinand Boss, the original founder of Hugo Boss, manufactured NSDAP, SS & Wehrmacht clothing in the early 1930s until end of WW2
nedBo TIL about Joe Arridy, who had an IQ of 46 and is known as the “happiest prisoner on death row”. He went into the gas chamber with a smile. It turned out he was innocent.
wWkW TIL that eating meat is an essential part of human evolution, making humans evolve to a “smarter” species than our ancestors.
kO9Bm TIL George Hull, an atheist, after an argument about the existence of Giants at a Methodist revival, hired men to quarry out a 10-foot-4.5-inch-long (3.2 m) block of gypsum to fake a giant body was buried. Nearly a year later, he hired 2 persons to dig a well and claim that they have discovered it