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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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JOn1 TIL of a disease called Adermatoglyphia, where people are born without fingerprints. It is exceedingly rare, affecting only four known extended families worldwide.
0wLmL TIL Mama Coco's likeness (from the 2017 movie Coco) was stolen by Pixar and it went uncredited
8bnZ TIL ESPN won an emmy for the creation of the superimposed yellow line representing the first down line for American football games.
AVrw TIL that those iconic X-shaped fortifications on the beaches at D-day were designed to tear open the bottoms of landing craft. The attack was expected to come at high tide, when they would be hidden under the water.
Wkb8Y TIL that the Kindle Paperwhite can invert the colours on your screen (black background with white text)