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TIL of Cunninghams Law “the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”

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awg7Z TIL Tina Turner was diagnosed with kidney failure after she opted to take homeopathic remedies instead of high blood pressure medication, something she now regrets. She was considering an assisted suicide until her current husband donated a kidney to her, saving her life.
LMpp TIL that if milk is added to coffee, the fat content of the milk causes the body to absorb caffeine at a slower rate, thus weakening its effect
epPY6 TIL that Nietzsche's central concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence were in part inspired by long-forgotten natural scientist Johannes Gustav Vogt's "Force: A Realistic and Monistic Worldview" (1878), a work nowhere to be found and de facto lost for all of us
gV9 TIL that the Malaysian “Assassin Bug” not only kills and eats its victims, but also wears its victims corpses on its body as part of its suit of armor.
w1KM TIL during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, fishermen said they saw with their own eyes “the reality of generations of legends … the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again.”