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TIL that opposite of good is not evil. Rather, good is the 'mean' between two evils. One of excess and another that of a deficit. Courage for instance is the mean between excess of rashness and a deficit of cowardice. Its a brilliant idea that alters how you look at right and wrong

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awAN TIL an 82-year-old nun walked into a US nuclear weapons plant unnoticed, spent several hours wondering around before turning herself in.
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Oae4 TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant in a Southern California mosque who pretended to be a radical Muslim and the Muslims at the mosque reported him to the FBI.