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TIL The Backfire Effect is when your beliefs get stronger despite contradictory evidence

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AN7p4 TIL a birthday cake after the candles were blown out has 1400% more bacteria than before the blowing
Wp88 TIL that the two pilots on a british airways flight can’t order the same meal for safety reasons
lyNB TIL the USA developed at least 2 working nuclear thermal rocket engines that were twice as efficient as chemical rockets, tested them both in the open air at Jackass Flats near Area 51, and deemed them ready to power a manned spaceflight mission to Mars.
8AQX TIL in 1993, during a Friar’s Club roast of Whoopie Goldberg, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson appeared in black-face and began telling racially charged jokes. Montel Williams stormed out of the event and then-Mayor Dinkins claimed offense. It was later revealed that Whoopie wrote the jokes.
l7GxG TIL Stan LePard created the song 'Velkommen' adapted by Windows 98/2k/XP during OS installs, a song many people didn't even hear it if the sound drivers weren't installed yet