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TIL Patrick Stewart is a public advocate for “assisted suicide”

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VMAlG TIL in psychology there is a principle called “contrast” (if you left a heavy item first then a light item second, the second item will feel lighter than actually it is). That’s why online businesses show you the expensive items first so the less expensive items seem cheap and affordable to you.
Ak5g TIL George Lucas gave a speech in 1988 to Congress about the need to protect films from being altered. “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”
VBnLD TIL not all rectangular national flags have the same proportions. Belgium (13:15), Niger (6:7) and Denmark (28:37) are almost a square. Paraguay (11:20), America (10:19) and Qatar (11:28) are flatter bois. El Salvador is a 189:335 and Togo is a 1:φ.
m9vM TIL that to save money in taxes, Marvel successfully argued in court that the X-Men, and mutants in general, did not qualify as human, directly contradicting one of the main themes of the comics.
OZMR TIL John Candy was considered by many to be one of the most genuinely nice people in Hollywood/Show Business. Many of his friends state that he never had anything bad to say about anyone.