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TIL that blind women also care about fashion and makeup

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wLAmY TIL there are several philosophical razors--not just Occam's Razor (simpler explanations are likely correct). One is called Newton's Flaming Laser Sword because it is, "Much sharper and more dangerous than Occam's Razor." It states that what cannot be settled by experiment ought not be debated.
0dkRR TIL: An entire Roman legion went missing in the 2nd Century AD, and we're still baffled as to what happened.
lMMV TIL that ‘the anchoring effect’ is the common human tendency to rely too heavily on the first piece of information offered (the “anchor”) when making decisions
Yp0Zx TIL that the past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is 'durst’
oRKGA TIL that the nomenclature for multiples of a thousand is different in the U.S. vs. the U.K. and the French. For example, a thousand times a thousand is a million in both. Times a thousand again becomes, in the U.S., a billion, whereas in the U.K. it becomes a thousand million, or milliard.