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TIL Stereotypes are more valid than most social psychological hypotheses

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m1JpY TIL that Beck rejected Weird Al's request to parody his hit 1990s song "Loser" because Beck felt he already wasn't being taken seriously as artist. Later though, Beck regretted this decision saying “I think it would have been an amazing video. I’m actually really sad it didn’t happen.”
6kEl TIL: There’s a plant called marsh mallow and it is the plant used in original marsh mallows. It is no longer used in marsh mallows today.
rNlXx TIL of a 24hr long art film called The Clock. It is a looped montage of scenes from film and television that feature clocks or timepieces to make up an entire day. Its screening is always synchronized with the local time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual time of the viewing.
e05b4 TIL that the oldest known joke in history is a Sumerian fart joke from 1900 BC
wolAM TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him