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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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XeLk TIL than Scrooge McDuck is worth 44 Billion and is placed on the Forbes 15 fiction list. And that such a list exists.
eGen TIL the US imports 11% of its oil from Saudi Arabia and 38% of its oil from Canada
oYB8 TIL that the flu kills an average of 26,000 people in the United States each year.
p8nKZ TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.
YpjmW TIL heroin was often smuggled into the united states on the corps of fallen soldiers