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TIL about Charvaka, an atheisitc and anti-clerical Indian philosophy which rejected the Vedas and believed that all perceivable matter was all that existed in the universe. Adherents as a result were told to pursue a life of hedonism with no ethical or religous qualms as they exist to control joy

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mx0VM TIL Buzz Aldrin is the oldest person to ever reach the South Pole, visiting in Nov. 2016 at the age of 86
xV6aB TIL when a law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against Taco Bell claiming the chain's seasoned beef filling isn’t beefy enough to be called beef by USDA standards, the chain spent $3-$4million to defend its beef filling as ‘high quality’ & insisted that the product is actually 88% beef.
Z1Yp TIL Germany finished paying WWI reparations only seven years ago.
78a6Z TIL that Fahrenheit 451, a book about a distopian future where books are banned and burned, was banned and burned by the apartheid regime in South Africa with other tens of thousands.
l7JJ1 TIL: Osama bin Laden wrote in a document that he got the inspiration for the 9/11 attacks from the 1999 Egypt Air crash, where a copilot committed murder-suicide by intentionally crashing the plane into the ocean, for unknown reasons.