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TIL that “pouring out a 40 for my homies” is actually an ancient religious ritual called ‘libation’

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lpKA TIL there is a 550 foot skyscraper in New York City with no windows. It was built to withstand the fallout of a nuclear blast for up to 2 weeks.
XE61X TIL that Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania & South Sudan have kicked off a process to unify with a single constitution, common market & currency
XEZJ6 TIL that just as % means occurrences per 100, ‰ (a permille) expresses occurrences per 1000.
BlOe TIL Hippos have red sweat that is frequently mistaken for blood
Xxx6 TIL of Brandolini’s Law AKA the Bullshit asymmetry principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”