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TIL Seeing Our Bias The psychology of (political) decision making

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lDe5 TIL that the woman who sang the “Blame Canada” song from South Park (Mary Bergman), committed suicide before the 2000 Oscars, prompting Robin Williams (who also committed suicide) to sing it instead. [Full story inside]
d8rMZ TIL: Although Fidel Castro was always pictured with cigars, he gave up smoking them in the 80’s and was quoted as saying: “The best thing you can do with a box of cigars give it to your enemy!”
780QP TIL that Jed, the dog who played the "villain" dog in the 1982 film The Thing was the same dog that played White Fang in the 1991 Disney movie
xVJb7 TIL the real-life John-Boy Walton wrote 8 Twilight Zone episodes and the 1973 animated screen adaption of Charlotte's Web.
KOXo4 TIL that Homer Simpson correctly predicted the mass of the Higgs boson (the God particle) 14 years before it was discovered.