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BrgAW TIL Alberto Brandolini, a programmer from Italy, in 2013 formulated the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle aka Brandolini's law which states: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it”. It highlights the difficulty of debunking bullshit.
VBLX4 TIL there is a LARP party in Czechia, where you roleplay contemporary rural Americans
41Bb TIL: FL woman sent thousands of dollars to Peru to help suspected killer Joran Van der Sloot with his defense.
16pvV TIL that the phrase “time immemorial” (as used in English common law) refers to any time prior to July 6, 1189
X01rX TIL that when Ohio was added as a state in 1803, Congress forgot to ratify it’s constitution. Technically, Ohio wasn’t officially granted statehood until 1953.