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TIL warning signs for our nuclear wastes today need symbols which can be understood by the future generations without the assumption that knowledge can be passed to them, and taking into consideration the possibility of human civilization crumbling away.

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QN0d TIL Nitka Khruschev once referred to Berlin as the “testicles of the west,"claiming that,"everytime I want to make the west scream, I squeeze on Berlin.”
G7VJ TIL Pirates were among the first groups to institute democratic governance, including election of captains.
R7ME1 TIL of Euthyphro dilemma, found in Plato's dialogue Euthyphro, in which Socrates asks Euthyphro question: "Is what is morally good commanded by God because it is morally good, or is it morally good because it is commanded by God?"
W7dbB TIL Elvis Presley's manager in the 1950's sold "I Hate Elvis" buttons to make money off people who didn't buy Elvis merchandise
dDY0Q TIL that Richard Feynman, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics, tried marijuana and ketamine in John Lilly's sensory deprivation tanks as a way to study consciousness.