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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.

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9wwMp TIL 4 laps around a regulation running track is not exactly 1 mile. It's about 30 feet short of a mile.
5VwdR TIL about Ohalo II. A 23,000 year old upper paleolithic settlement with the earliest evidence of brushwood huts/dwellings and of plant cultivation.
4X1b6 TIL Loki got piped by a horse.
5VYXk TIL of the Potato Park. A seed bank in Peru, it is managed by Indigenous communities and focuses on Andean crops and plants. It specialises in potatoes, and houses samples of 2300 of the 4000 varieties in the world
1lnX TIL: No expert can verify the origins of Friday the 13th. But the first written references to its wickedness appear around the mid-19th century when William Fowler, a U.S. Army captain, founded the Thirteen Club — a group of 13 men in Manhattan devoted to proving the superstitions were false.