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TIL there are adventure playgrounds in Europe where kids can essentially do whatever they want, including light fires, in a junkyard-like setting.

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d5ZB TIL the Japanese have a word (tsundoku [積ん読]) for the habit of buying a lot of books and never reading them.
mM TIL that without the support of Lucille Ball (“I Love Lucy”) Star Trek may have ceased to exist.
P09V TIL After reviving Disney’s animation studios with The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and The Lion King, Jeffrey Katzenberg asked for a promotion and was promptly fired. He swore revenge and founded Dreamworks . Within 10 years, Dreamworks’ Shrek 2 became the third highest grossing movie of all time.
gr0ZL TIL there are multiple philosophical razors beyond Occam’s Razor, such as Hanlon’s Razor, which suggests “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity,” and Hitchens’ Razor, which claims “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
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