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TIL Sturgeon’s law states that 90% of everything is crap. So 90% of experiments in molecular biology, 90% of poetry, 90% of philosophy books – and so forth – is crap.

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VMrep TIL Abraham Lincoln was unpopular among both the north and the south before he died.
PL7g TIL that women generally had more legal rights under Islamic law than they did under Western legal systems until more recent times
loNQa TIL there's an island in Scotland owned by Tibetan Buddhists because the previous owner had a dream in which the Virgin Mary told her to give it to them.
MNDa TIL John Malkovich ate only Jell-O for 10 weeks when he was a teenager and lost 70 pounds
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