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TIL about the Time Cube Theory, which was a bogus theory created by Otis Eugene Ray who claimed to be "the wisest man on earth", that a day actually consists of four simultaneous days

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OoKQa TIL About a paper which models the expected "time-to-failure" of potential conspiracies. E.g. if the moon landing was a hoax, the conspiracy would have had to involve 411k people, and thus the model posits that the conspiracy would have been exposed within about 4 years
0XBj TIL A Man working for the UK Border Agency got back at his wife by placing her on the no-fly-list while she was overseas, thereby stranding her in Pakistan for 3 years.
WkZ4L TIL that Coca-Cola was fined approximately $2000 by the Hungarian Authority for Consumer Protection for Ads With Same-Sex Couples ‘Undermining Adolescents’ Moral Development’.
J0rv TIL there is a breed of pig in Hungary that is fleecy like a sheep, with reddish meat like a cow, created by breeding together a wild boar and a pig bred especially for lard. It is also, apparently, delicious.
Y8m7 TIL that preventable medical errors are estimated to kill 210,000+ hospital patients every year in the US.