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TIL It is cheaper to fly to the USA from Australia to buy Adobe’s Creative Suite than to buy it within Australia

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b9rQ0 TIL Some Midwesterners eat cinnamon rolls with their chili.
P1PeO TIL litotes is the term for using a negative to state a positive while implying mediocrity, whether out of politeness, modesty, or as something funny. Some examples that are "not bad" are: "your book wasn't awful", "he's not a terrible learner" and "Maradona wasn't a half-decent footballer"
9e5X TIL that Scientists replicated 100 Psychology studies, and fewer than half got the same results
l5mB TIL: A former king of Sweden became a pirate after he lost the throne
MeGkW TIL that during Rock Springs Massacre in 1885 a mob of white coal miners in Wyoming attacked Chinese miners, many of whom they burned alive. Others were “scalped, mutilated, branded, decapitated, dismembered, and hanged,” killing at least 28. Sixteen men were arrested, but none were indicted.