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TIL that Albert Einstein wrote an essay about how our politicians and media only represent the interests of the top 1% and how they use misinformation to prevent citizens from coming to objective conclusions or making intelligent use of their political rights.

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a8NLy TIL It's physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand
BrYWr TIL of Laura Secord, a Canadian woman who walked 30 km (about 19 miles) to warm British troops about a planned attacked by US troops on Beaver Dams during the War of 1812. There is now a chocolate company named after her.
M7Qa TIL that in 1953 the United States government detonated a nuclear bomb in Utah more powerful than Little Boy of Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed Harry, was known to the Utahans as Dirty Harry because of the large amount of fallout.
lE6a TIL A South Korean subway driver told passengers to remain inside while a fire was spreading in the station. He then fled with the master key leaving the train doors closed and sealing passengers inside. Out of 198 people who died in the station, 79 were trapped in his train.
v19nD TIL that during the 1908 Olympics, marathon runners, including the winners, drank champagne, brandy, or strychnine cocktails, in the belief that it would provide energy. In 1924, the Paris games provided wine at rehydration stations.