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TIL of the “self attribution fallacy” which suggests that “If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire”

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Zn5Y TIL that the US Air Force connected 1,760 PlayStation 3’s together to build supercomputer
Z8ZjG TIL that a 2010 Pew survey found that atheists and agnostics are one of the highest scoring groups when it comes to general religious knowledge
nW9QG TIL that when Roland Ratzenberger died in a crash in the Formula1 race in Imola in 1994, the car computer registered a deceleration of 500 G, the highest ever recorder in an F1 car.
4XOeN TIL that the jingu shinto shrine in Ise, Japan has been demolished and rebuilt every 20 years since the year 690. Even the objects inside the shrine are rebuilt except the sacred mirror
wLQoo TIL when Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court, his rental history was leaked to the press. Bork himself had stated that Americans only had privacy rights as afforded them by direct legislation. The incident led to the enactment of the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act.