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Today I learned an Adze is a sideways Axe

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gxKA TIL that psychopaths typically use too many ‘uhs’ and 'ums’ while talking in order to seem normal ..
DQmYJ TIL One of the reasons Germany didn’t develop nuclear weapons first during World War II was due to the Norwegian heavy water sabotage. In 1943, Norwegian resistance fighters launched a daring attack on the Vemork hydroelectric plant, which was producing heavy water essential for Germany's atomic bom
K8dJ TIL that many baby animals are unwittingly “kidnapped” by people who assume they’re abandoned.
5V0yQ TIL Bacon was invented in Ancient China
l7O9r TIL in 2005, Sothebys & Christies had to play Rock-Paper-Scissors over an art collection. Sothebys assumed it was random chance, so had no strategy. But Christies studied the game & asked two 11yo twin girls, who picked scissors: “Rock is way too obvious, and scissors beats paper.” Christies won.