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TIL that operating system Linux approximates informational anarchist communism

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oRPQR TIL that an extensive research of dropping wallets was done to study honesty. 279 top economists agreed that a wallet with more money would be less likely to be returned but the actual results turned out to be opposite across countries and culture.
ewYL TIL that the original Gettysburg address was a disaster: no one expected Lincoln to show up, he wasn’t the key speaker, and the reaction from the audience was so muted that he considered the speech a failure
LPer TIL when Charlie Chaplin was a teenager he went to a pub and asked for a glass of water, but got so spooked by the gentleman serving the drink that he fled. It was found several weeks later that the man was a serial killer who gave poisonous water to his new brides and watched them suffer to death.
8armV TIL that during WW2, Norwegians mostly resisted the German occupation nonviolently. They would refuse to go to German-owned businesses, pretend to not speak German, and refuse to sit next to Germans on public transport.
kJBj1 TIL That Jacques Cousteau helped in the search for oil off the coast of Abu Dhabi by collecting rock samples.