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TIL of the Shirky Principle: "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution."

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eybL TIL that the sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 100 miles away
5Yx59 TIL that the word Boycott is named after an Irish landlord named Charles Boycott. After Boycott attempted to evict 11 tenants, the local community decided to shun him. Workers would not work for him, traders would not trade with him, and the postman would not deliver the post.
grBGW TIL In 2002 German actor Günther Kaufmann confessed that he had fallen on his accountant and accidentally suffocated the man to death with his 260-pound body. But in 2005 it was discovered that Kaufmann was innocent and had confessed to protect his dying wife who had murdered the man.
Oow8Y TIL six of the worlds eight poisonous birds are found in New Guinea suspected to be due to an abundance of the toxic Choresine Beetle
8aP1L TIL that the Sperm Whale is the loudest animal on the planet and are so loud that they can vibrate you to death