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TIL Sigmund Freud wrote that there are only seven jokes or wit that have ever been written: Absurdity, allusion, comparison, exaggeration, faulty thinking, word-play and reproach

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6Eg9w TIL Nat sec advisor Brzezinski was woken at 3am by a call telling him Russia launched 250 ICBMs at the U. S. Minutes later, he received another call: The early-warning system actually showed 2,000 inbound missiles. As he began to phone the president, he received a third call: It was a false alarm.
yn8J TIL that penguins have an organ which removes salt from water, allowing them to drink salt water.
oByGE TIL about a highly complex structure known simply as "E8"', a weird 8-dimensional mathematical object that for some, strange reason, appears to encode all of the particles and forces of our 3-dimensional universe.
6eZZ TIL after his wife died, Rick Moranis quit Hollywood so he could spend his time raising his children.
ldEV TIL that Danzig’s hit song “Mother” was in response to attempted censorship from Tipper Gore and the PMRC