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TIL about the parable of Chesterton’s Fence: Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place.

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b6Ww9 TIL about the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese workers from the U.S. for more than 60 years from 1882 until 1943
NmWQ TIL that in China, 1.6 million people die each year from air pollution.
GGdJ TIL that US prison population grew 380% in 30 years despite a steep decrease in crime rate. At 1.5mil, it’s the world’s largest, and 30% of it is drug crimes.
8epmV TIL, that because Mars father is Jupiter and Jupiters father is Saturn, Johann Bode proposed that the 7th planet should be named after Jupiters father. Bode was unaware of the fact that Uranus was the greek and not roman god. There are now 6 planets named after roman gods and 1 named after a greek.
Egp57 TIL that most people prefer AI-generated poetry to poetry made by humans