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TIL Ducks should be fed frozen peas instead of bread.
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TIL lightning stimulates accelerated growth in mushrooms. Japanese mushroom farmers use their own "artificially induced lighting " to increase yield.
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TIL about Microtargeting where machine-learning algorithms ingest large amounts of voter data to divide the electorate into narrow segments and predict which individual voters are best target to persuade or turn out in an election
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TIL that a German politician was forced to resign after publicly pouring champagne over a homeless man’s head
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TIL Charles Lyne, a British filmmaker, raised $8486 to force two people to watch a 10 hour 7 minute movie of paint drying. Those two people were employees of the BBFC, responsible for classifying movies, and the stunt was done to protest the BBFC’s power of censorship.
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TIL that the tragedy of the Library of Alexandria burning down and "setting knowledge back centuries" is a myth. In reality, the Library slowly declined over many years and by its end, most major cities had similar libraries with many of the same works.