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TIL: Singapore is represented as a triangle in PolandBall comics and there is a paper examining why published in April 2023

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QNanM TIL philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre heavily used amphetamines, mixed with coffee & tobacco, to boost productivity. This led to intense writing spurts (e.g., a 400-page book in a month) but severely damaged his health.
69LNQ TIL that California is the only state to have an image of an extinct animal on its state flag and seal
awj8A TIL Taiwan named its homegrown fighter jet F-CK-1 after the US was pressured by China not to sell them F-20 fighters.
n7lb TIL coal power plants produce more nuclear waste than nuclear power plants
gG5L TIL that Annie Dookhan, a crime lab chemist in MA, intentionally mishandled thousands of samples. As a result, more than 20,000 convictions had to be dropped en masse.