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TIL Einstein was an outspoken socialist and believed socialism was the natural course society would take.

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GDRE TIL: Before video game addiction, people were blaming Dungeons and Dragons for suicide and teen satanism.
VMZgG TIL a large study found "How's my driving" stickers reduced crashes by 22%. 80% all the drivers never received a complaint. 10% of the total got only one call ever.
b6Wp9 TIL shipbuilders often place "Sacrificial Anodes", which is metal nodules made of easily-reacting metal like zinc, to "force" the Anodising corrosion to happen on these "throwaway" spots rather than on the main steel hull of the ship
Ooov1 TIL lebanese-american voice actor Casey Kasem, best know as Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, left the Transformers cartoon after they introduced a somewhat offensive character named 'Abdul Fakkadi' who was ruler of a country called 'Carbombia'.
kOyb7 TIL about Operation Platypus: in 1943, Winston Churchill randomly demanded a live platypus from Australia. The poor platypus (named Winston, of course) was sent across the ocean to Liverpool but died just 4 days before the arrival when the ship got attacked by a U-boat attack.