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TIL of Brandolini’s Law AKA the Bullshit asymmetry principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

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9wYdp TIL Galileo's middle finger is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy
kOgV4 TIL that Rutherford B. Hayes didn't serve alcohol at White House events. Secretary of State Evarts quipped that at White House dinners, "water flowed like wine."
wL8k8 TIL that a man who had severe allergy, intentionally infected himself with hookworms after he read that parasites might cure allergy. After he got infected by walking barefoot in latrines, the worms actually treated his allergy. He later started to sell worm eggs on the internet.
W7QZ8 TIL of storm chasers, people that actively search out storms and extreme weather to conduct meteorological research on the field, to report tornados, storms, hurricanes and other high-impact weather conditions to weather bureaus.
XEAkP TIL The United States still has 8 nuclear weapons unaccounted for as a result of "broken arrow" incidents typically involving the aircraft carrying it crashing or in one case a crew member accidentally grabbing the emergency release pin.