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TIL that we actually forget 70% of what we read in a day.

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65LJ TIL that during the film The Big Lebowski, the Dude consumes 12 drinks and smokes 5 joints. There is an entire community of people dedicated to watching the movie and mimicking the consumption of the exact same menu of food, alcohol and drugs. The Dude abides.
9YkDp TIL except for cats, insects and songbirds, absolutely no women of any species are allowed to enter Mount Athos, a Greek peninsula self-governed by Eastern Orthodox monks, to make living in celibacy easier for them
X07LQ Today I learned about Frederick Lindemann, Churchill's advisor who encouraged him to target working class houses, and divert food shipments from India.
KKgB TIL that despite the UK representing just 0.9% of the global population, it has 15.9% of the world’s most highly-cited scientific research articles.
OGJ8Y TIL in 2003 the German government tried to ban far-right political party NPD but failed because the government informants in the party had written too much of the material used against them in the trial