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TIL Sayre's Law, which has been variously formulated as, "academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics because the stakes are so low" and "competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small".

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Oap6 TIL In WWII, partially due to America’s ship-building rate, advances in radar technology, as well as cracking the “Enigma code”, German U-boats had a 75% casualty rate by the end of the war,(the highest of all German forces).
GY7J1 TIL Benito Mussolini’s son Romano Mussolini was a respected Jazz musician who toured internationally with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Merrill and Chet Baker.
0wYZA TIL that in 2013 "The Looney Tunes Show" established that "Yosemite Sam's" full name is Samuel Michelangelo Rosenbaum.
wGgP TIL that the dog who played Eddie on Frasier was replaced by his own son in Season 9.
eGVb TIL of the Ideological Turing Test to determine if someone understands his opponents arguments: a partisan writes an essay from the POV of his opposite. If a neutral observer cannot tell the difference between the partisan’s answers and the opposite’s answers, the partisan passes the test.