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TIL China has a Social Credit System similar to Black Mirror’s “Nosedive”

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167pP TIL San Antonio brewery icon Otto Koehler was murdered by his mistress back in 1914. He had a wife named Emma as well as two mistresses…both also named Emma.
m1YgP TIL Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children
PYRZn TIL between 1967 and 1991 the USSR produced thousands of TV ads for non-existent products
epVO5 TIL that the word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his book 'If I Ran the Zoo'.
78NvM TIL that the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability because they lack the self-awareness to recognize their own incompetence.