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TIL (from a YouTube video from The Paint Explainer) Warnock's dilemma is the explication of why there is no sure way to understand why nobody comments on community post you made.

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mLQO TIL that Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin learned to fence both left- and right-handed and performed all of the fencing in the sword fight scene for The Princess Bride
VMAk0 TIL that Belgium holds the Guinness world record for the longest period of time needed to form an official government
9l57 TIL that Pope Francis worked as a bouncer in a Buenos Aires bar to earn money as a student.
R7Qp4 TIL: Before the trial of Soviet politicians Zinoviev and Kamenev, they had agreed to plead guilty to the false charges on the condition that they not be executed, a condition that Stalin accepted, stating "that goes without saying". A few hours after their conviction, Stalin ordered their execution
MeKoK TIL on the last day of filming the Titanic movie, James Cameron was stabbed in the face by a cast member with a pen while feeling violently ill. 60 cast and crew were sent to the hospital feeling delirious and sick. Once food poisoning was ruled out they realized the chowder had been laced with PCP.