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TIL of Longtermism, an ethical stance which values future people just as much as people alive today, from a longtermist perspective, killing billions of humans today would be perfectly moral if it ensured the survival of trillions of humans a million years from now.

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8e6v4 TIL Popcorn icon Orville Redenbacher Died By Drowning in A Hot Tub
a8g5M TIL of African rice (Oryza Glaberrima), a species native to West Africa that was first grown around 3,000 years ago. It has a nutty flavor and it is considered tastier that Asian rice, but it is less cultivated because it has lower yields
QJG1e TIL that "public school" in England means essentially the opposite as it does in the US. In the US public schools are the "common" schools funded by taxes. In England they are elite boarding schools.
wAno TIL that Dr. Donald Unger won an Ig Nobel Award in medicine after systematically cracking the knuckles on his left hand and not his right hand for 60 years, demonstrating that knuckle cracking does not cause arthritis.
8ekxG TIL that the Oiseau Canari- the first French built and crewed plane to cross the Atlantic- carried an American stowaway