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

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DEJJ TIL asbestos in the United States has not been banned and is totally legal. When the Environmental Protection Agency tried to ban it, supporters of the asbestos industry actually overturned the ban in a lawsuit. It is still widely used in products to this day.
KOymE TIL Sylvester Stallone is still pals with turtles from original ‘Rocky’ They're 44 years old.
n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.
JY8rj TIL: That during the design process of the World Trade Center, engineers had considered and done an analysis of a scenario where a jet airliner impacted a tower.
ajJM TIL: A Study about butter, funded by butter industry, found that butter is bad for you