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TIL “Hitchen’s razor”, the concept that something asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, predates Christopher Hitchens by hundreds of years.

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GYmpJ TIL many people supported countries boycotting the 2008 Olympics over China's human rights abuses in Tibet, but such boycotts never ended up happening
0wbRA TIL most Confederate statues were built in the early 1900s, and then again in the 1950s and 60s. Both were times of extreme civil rights tension.
9YmXr TIL The Talking Heads only had ONE top 10 hit: Burning Down the House. Once in a Lifetime didn’t even make the top 100.
kJ5K4 TIL the Lotus Elise sports car was named after Elisa Artioli, granddaughter of then-company chairman Romano Airtioli. In 2018, Elisa was given the last example ever produced before the model was discontinued.
Brk4W TIL Beethoven’s 9th Symphony is sung in Japan at the end of every year, and the first time it was sung in the country was in a POW camp in 1918 by German prisoners