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TIL Nikola Tesla predicted smart phones with incredible accuracy almost 100 years ago

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AOag TIL that the company BlackRock has $3.67 trillion in assets under management. “If [it] were a country, then its assets […] would put it at the fourth largest in terms of gross domestic product, higher than Germany or France”.
nRXG TIL Double Stuf Oreos are actually made with less than double the creme of a regular Oreo (1.86 times the creme of a regular Oreo)
WwjL TIL the infamous RickRoll’d video is not available in the United States anymore.
grdoW TIL that at the Council of Nicea in 325, a priest called Arius proposed a heretical belief so strong he got punched by St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus. Several years later, Arius died from rectal prolapse and according to legend, defecating out parts of his organs.
MJ0a TIL when asked how they discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the plants used in the ayahuasca brew, Many indigenous Amazonian people said they “received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits”.