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TIL: that there are 200 fireproof copies (asbestos binding) of Fahrenheit 451.

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ndpB TIL: When an F18 is catapulted from its carrier, the pilot doesn’t actually take the controls. The acceleration is so brisk that the pilot would pitch down thinking that the nose was to high and crash into the ocean. They instead just hold handle they call the “towel rail”
m1rDv TIL an analysis of the lyrics of more than 12,000 English-language songs released between 1980-2020 (from the genres of rap, country, pop, R&B & rock) found that lyrics have become simpler, angrier, more repetitive & more self-obsessed over that period of time.
ORg7 TIL Nintendo Power stopped accepting the many Tetris highscores submitted by Steve Wozniak. So he reversed his name, and Evets Kainzow was printed.
XEdN6 TIL about Hartmann a philosopher who believed that as intelligent beings, we are obligated to find a way to eliminate suffering, permanently and universally. He believed that it is up to humanity to “annihilate” the universe. It is our duty, he wrote, to “cause the whole kosmos to disappear”
xVlWg TIL about the "Impossible Literacy Test of 1964" that was given in Louisiana to those who wanted to vote. The test is to be taken in less than 10 minutes, the questions were intentionally vague and obtuse and if you failed, you couldn't vote. It was intentionally used to disenfranchise voters.