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TIL that Italian author Umberto Eco said that social media "gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community...but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."

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8eLBb TIL about "General Average," a 19th century maritime law requiring all stakeholders (cargo owners, shippers, etc.) to share losses if part of a ship or cargo is sacrificed in an emergency to save the whole.
l7ZQa TIL oranges are actually a hybrid between mandarin oranges and pomelos.
y6GJ TIL: Rosa parks did not purposefully galvanize or sit in the front row of the bus to be arrested, she obediently sat in the front row of the colored section and refused to give up her seat.
LQeEp TIL about the 1822 massacre on the Greek island of Chios by Ottoman empire troops that killed up to 50,000 people
6ekl TIL that so many British people make tea after the tv show “Eastenders” finishes, that backup power stations go on standby to cope with the massive surge in electricity