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TIL of the Backfire Effect, in which wrongly held beliefs of people get stronger in the light of contradictory facts and evidence, not the other way around as typically expected.

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e0Zk TIL According to University of California, the world’s servers processed 9.87 Zettabytes of information in a single year. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000 GigaBytes!
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