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TIL According to Aristotle, a city of 100,000 is too numerous and “no longer a community”

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kJ5Ad TIL 4% of people have never had a headache
MLeW TIL when America lost it’s AAA credit rating in 2011, the treasury contacted S&P and said “such behavior could not occur without a response”. Within 2 weeks the SEC and DoJ were investigating the ratings agency and the government ended up suing them for $5 billion
m1Wby TIL about the Lake Megachad. Some 10'000 years ago Africa was a lot wetter than today, and lake Chad was considerably larger back then. What a chad!
x4Mk TIL that Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell gave their entire salaries from the movie “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassius” to Heath Ledger’s daughter.
KO8nQ TIL of Henry Darger who created over 300 gorgeous, often giant and mostly very distubing pieces of artwork which were only discovered shortly before his death. His last words were "too late now" when someone mentioned his work which is now considered one of the most important "outisder art".