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TIL key parts of our ability to process and synthesize new information shut down whenever we’re confronted with something we disagree with.

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gr6xL TIL Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have ever visited the ice giants Uranus and Neptune
4X0Ma TIL that the fourth funnel on the Titanic was fake. It was for appearances only: it made the ship look bigger. It was not connected to the charcoal ovens, but it was connected to the first-class smoking room, making it a sort of oversized kitchen hood.
6ExyY TIL Sheep and goats are being used for weed control in difficult to reach areas, and to keep vegetation down from around runways, discouraging wildlife from gathering and causing danger to aircraft. They will eat noxious weeds as an environmentally friendly alternative to herbicides in city parks.
4gBb TIL that the American flag on the Moon was knocked over by the exhaust from the return rocket
EVD7 TIL the Thirteen Club met in the 1880s to debunk the superstition about the number 13 by dining 13 to a table, walking under ladders, and spilling salt on Friday 13th. They had 5 US Presidents as members, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.