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TIL Confucius believed people would naturally follow and support the virtuous ruler without needing harsh laws and spent 12 years traveling around China looking for a ruler who would listen to his ideas. He never found one

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4ov5 TIL that in 1962, special, hi-tech locks were added to all U.S. nuclear missiles that would prevent launch without a secret, unique launch code. However, military officials quietly circumvented this safeguard by setting every locK to “00000000”. The codes remained unchanged until 1977.
5dEr TIL a child named “Genie” was once locked alone in a room from the age of 20 months to 13 years, unexposed to speech
nnKG TIL microbiologists have “resurrected” 3-billion-year-old ancestors of proteins that enable today’s antibiotic-resistant bacteria to shrug off huge doses of penicillins and other drugs
neXpY TIL the inventor of the GameBoy and Duck Hunt, Gunpei Yokoi, died in his fifties after rear ending someone and then being hit by a car when he went to check on them.
WERX TIL there’s an “endless wave” in the Amazon that can be surfed for ten kilometers or more.