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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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MeY88 TIL that the name Lloyd comes from Llwyd, the Welsh word for grey. Harold Lloyd's paternal grandfather was from Wales
neOv7 TIL There is no way to visually identify the sex of a beaver, as they have no external genitalia. To determine their sex you must milk their anal glands. If the excreted fluid smells like motor oil, it's a male. If it smells like old cheese, it's a female.
8ay8a TIL Though Virginia governors may serve two terms; they may not be consecutive terms per Virginia's second constitution.
KYABE TIL American writer Jack Kerouac served on SS Dorchester which was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 3 February 1943. Kerouac would have also been on the ship during the attack, but for a telegram he received from coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play football.
dDg6j TIL that between 1697 and 1698, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia travelled incognito to Western Europe under the alias "Peter Mikhailov" to gain knowledge of their advances in learning. At 6'8" he was likely the tallest man in Europe, and so his disguise was almost certainly laughably ineffective.