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TIL “eye of newt” in Macbeth is just a term for mustard seed

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16Xvd TIL that the word GORILLA is linked to "extreme hairy (African) woman" in Ancient times: 500 BC - Hanno the Navigagators translators told him those are "GORILLAI"... read by yourself
epdQg TIL Nazis Planned to Assassinate Winston Churchill with an Exploding Chocolate Bar but the plot was uncovered by british spies
LQo4r TIL that Warren Buffett's (6th richest person in the world) son thought that his dad's job was checking security alarm systems; as a kid, had no idea what his dad did for a living and no clue that his dad was really, really rich
kJLd5 TIL Henry Ford was sued for libel by a Jewish farming co-op after publishing in the Dearborn Independent that the co-op was a front for a Jewish conspiracy to monopolize American agriculture. The libel suit led Ford to issue a retraction and public apology, and the Dearborn Independent folded.
8aG1L TIL the fallacy fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.