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TIL it’s harder to get into Clown College than it is Harvard.

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VMKpG TIL London Underground workers fought management red tape with a 'piss strike,' meaning they followed safety rules so exactly that workers going to the toilet one after the other essentially shut down any work being done.
bAXa TIL there’s a fountain in Italy that dispenses free wine 24-7.
4XP1a TIL Brenda E. Robinson was the first African American female pilot in US Navy history in 1980
XEdN6 TIL about Hartmann a philosopher who believed that as intelligent beings, we are obligated to find a way to eliminate suffering, permanently and universally. He believed that it is up to humanity to “annihilate” the universe. It is our duty, he wrote, to “cause the whole kosmos to disappear”
WR6Y TIL every time Pac-Man eats a regular dot, he stops moving for one frame (1/60th of a second), slowing his progress by roughly ten percent—just enough for a following ghost to overtake him.