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TIL that punk label Stiff Records released an album called “The Wit & Wisdom of Ronald Reagan” that was blank on both sides. It sold 30,000 copies.

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6ErbJ TIL the sun has a gravitational acceleration of 275 m/s². If one were able to walk on the sun they'd feel a force of 28 g (28 times the gravitational force on earth)
8aAN8 TIL the experience of walking into a room and forgetting exactly what you came in there to do is called the Doorway Effect. Walking through an open door and entering a new room creates a "mental block" in our brains and resets the memory to make room for the creation of new memories.
yQ7Vw TIL that in the Middles Ages, psychiatric disorder existed among the upper class causing people to fear that they were made of glass "and therefore likely to shatter into pieces". One famous sufferer was King Charles VI of France, who wore reinforced clothing to protect himself from "shattering"
LkLnZ TIL a single mirror produced in Venice in the 15/16th century was worth more than a painting by Raphael, and was about equal to the cost of a naval ship. The creators of the mirrors were so prized the Venetian government would send assassins to kill them if they absconded without permission.
XEE68 TIL the United States bombed North Korea between 1950 to 1953, killing 1 in 5 of North Korea's population, leveling every significant town and city along with hydroelectric and irrigation dams, causing massive flooding and destruction of crops