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TIL The Gell-Mann Effect is when we believe everything the media tells us except for anything for which we have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong.

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oBGxK TIL that Jeremy Rossman dropped out of MIT in 2011 to start his own college, Make School. The young college offers a project based bachelors degree in computer science that involves working with companies on current, real world problems. Students only pay tuition if they are hired upon graduation.
nMaW TIL that giant rats actually existed within the confines of human history and were almost exactly the same size as the Princess Bride’s ROUS’s.
JY9mj TIL about "Burusera" or the sexualized attraction to the underwear or uniforms of young women. In Japan burusera shops used to be common and schoolgirls once openly participated in the sale of their used clothing.
VBK0k TIL Alaska’s Chirikof Island is home to around 700–800 feral cattle that were descended from the animals of the early Russian settlers and missionaries of coastal Alaska
gMMBD TIL that Gandhi was extremely misogynistic