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TIL the US-Canada Border is both the longest and least militarized border in the world

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VMO00 TIL Philosophers do have consensus over some issues: Free will is compatible with a universe ruled by cause-and-effect, Minds are purely physical (instead of spiritual), and You should switch (hitting 1 instead of 5 people) in the trolley problem.
Yp9bW TIL the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built as a memorial to WW1 veterans in 1923 and will be the first stadium to host 3 different Olympics games.
kOPvg TIL A group of guys made a to scale model of the solar system in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. They felt that pictures online couldn’t capture the size of our solar system and they wanted to give an accurate example.
OG6w6 TIL when Bruce Springsteen met Joey Ramone (of The Ramones), he was asked to write a song for The Ramones and originally wrote “Hungry Heart” for them. He then decided to keep it for himself based on the advice of his manager.
6EGjQ TIL that most people like the color orange less and less as they grow older