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TIL that HARKing (hypothesizing after the results are known) is the practice by researchers of looking through the data to find interesting results and then constructing a research question and hypothesis and presenting them as if the hypothesis came before the findings.

x6E8B TIL that the Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a commentary about meat production. Director Tobe Hooper said, "I gave up meat while making that film. In a way I thought the heart of the film was about meat; it’s about the chain of life and killing sentient beings."
X0JBR TIL Teeth blackening was popular around the world in times past and still practiced by a few
kOjvW TIL the famous "Florence Y'all" water tower in Florence, KY, originally read "Florence Mall." However, since the Florence Mall hadn't been built yet, the Highway Bureau declared the advertisement unlawful. Instead of repainting the entire tower, they simply repainted one letter on the cheap
j6wEn TIL The billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig created the Jari Project, a 4 million acres paper pulp farm/factory/planned community in Brazil in 1967. By 1981 Ludwig divested himself of the expensive failing project. The Jari Project was just down stream from Henry Ford's failed Fordlandia rubber farm.
jNLBa TIL the reason a clock is used as a metaphor for how close we are to extinction in the Doomsday Clock is that a clock implies a countdown and suggests that destruction will naturally occur unless someone takes action to stop it.