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TIL: Facts are increasingly ineffective at convincing people to change their minds and in fact will only root people deeper in their original beliefs.

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yJYM TIL that Vincent van Gogh’s last words were, “The sadness will last forever.”
nYvG TIL, Texas billionaire and former Presidential candidate Ross Perot wrote a blank cheque to fund and save the 500-year old Treaty Oak in Austin Texas which was poisoned by a vandal
d5Xr TIL domestic cats purr at a frequency of about 26 Hertz, in a range that promotes bone and tissue regeneration.
krb5 TIL The Chinese Government has censored the word ‘Censorship’
w5o6 TIL running a weak electric current through your brain can improve concentration and performance (in trials it boosted the speed with which wannabe snipers could detect a threat by a factor of 2.3)