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TIL "Motivated Reasoning" is why you can't change someone's mind on the Internet. Techniques include identity-protective cognition (being dismissive of uncomfortable ideas) biased assimilation (only remembering supporting ideas) and biased information search (staying in a bubble).

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JVgm TIL Lance Armstrong, at the height of his doping behaviour in the 2000s, made a $100k donation to the international cycling federation to ‘fund the fight against doping’
LkxAd TIL that there is a Maoist Communist Party of China that is banned by the Communist Party of China for being too commuist. The party's main goal is to overthrow the government and have a second marxist revolution
M7xJa TIL the oldest resturant still running started in 803 AD
rmy4 TIL of the youngest execution by the US government. George Stinney was executed at 14 years old for murder. The electric chair cap didn’t fit his small head and he had to use a bible as a booster seat.
eP5J Til that a gorrilla’s erection is just over one inch long, and that humans are the most endowed of all primates.