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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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VM7pD TIL that when Viagra is dissolved in water with flowers in them, the flowers stay erect up to a week longer than usual.
0dvLA TIL: Famine is not a natural disaster — it's primarily man-made.
lMx1 TIL that Bill Nye the Science Guy only has a bachelors of science, but has been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees
a8g60 TIL Oscar De Priest was the only african-american congressman during this three terms in congress from Illinois 1929 to 1935. He was the first black congressman from outside the south, and the first to be elected to congress in the 20th century.
rNWLd TIL in 1996, a 21-year-old man burst into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog's rendition of Rainbow Connection be played.