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TIL A Spanish guy skipped work for 6 years while still being paid and was only discovered when he was going to be recognised for his hard work

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VMO00 TIL Philosophers do have consensus over some issues: Free will is compatible with a universe ruled by cause-and-effect, Minds are purely physical (instead of spiritual), and You should switch (hitting 1 instead of 5 people) in the trolley problem.
oRew7 TIL a skeuomorph is a design that uses an older, familiar design in something new, like the floppy disc “save” icon or candle-shaped lightbulbs
woKO7 TIL that during the revolutionary war, significantly more African Americans fought for the British than did for the Americans. These fighters would be coined as Black Loyalists.
PYkyL Today I learned that there's a California University and an Indiana University, and both of them are located in Pennsylvania.
1AP7 TIL Band-aids emit a blue flash of light when pulled apart - visible to the human eye when you do it in the dark!