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TIL of Brandolini's law, where "the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it"

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9YyVQ TIL President Eisenhower would watch almost any movie that featured cowboys except for ones with Robert Mitchum because of his arrest for marijuana possession. As soon as Ike saw Mitchum in a movie he would walk out.
QDd6 TIL that in Mexico, Artists Can Pay Their Taxes Using Artwork that They Create.
WkyAN TIL A royal footman was once fired from Buckingham Palace for having a "party trick" of pouring alcohol into the royal corgis' food and watching them stagger about.
KOMb9 TIL more Americans died per year in the Korean War than the Vietnam War
gKZD TIL that prong horned antelope have 10X vision, which means on a clear night they can see the rings of Saturn.