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TIL Why having doppelgangers are so unnerving
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TIL in some situations smells can be trademarked in the US
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TIL many 17th Century pirate ships had proto-democratic, anti-authoritarian rules for sharing wealth, keeping power in check, compensating for injuries, and including marginalized people.
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TIL the International criminal court, in 12 years of existence and in spending over $1 billion, has convicted only 2 people.
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TIL on July 30, 1978 a city in Japan decided to switch which side of the road they drove on. It took 8 hours to turn all the traffic signs around, and cost $150 million to do the entire conversion.
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TIL that a cat once co-authored a physics paper. In 1975, a physicist had just finished writing a paper and was ready to publish but realized that he had used ‘we’ instead of 'I’ throughout, despite being the sole author. Not wanting to edit the paper, he listed his cat, Chester, as a co-author.