fun facts for the next time someone asks
Cobra Effect: Attempting to solve a problem makes that problem worse. Comes from an Indian story about a city infested with snakes offering a bounty for every dead cobra, which caused entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras for slaughter.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Tom Whitwell • 52 things I learned in 2024
About 20 years ago, Google reached an important milestone. The Merriam-Webster dictionary added "Google" as a verb to mean searching for something on the web.
Alistair Barr • Google is losing its status as a verb
Buridan’s Ass : A thirsty donkey is placed exactly midway between two pails of water. It dies because it can’t make a rational decision about which one to choose. A form of decision paralysis.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Tom Whitwell • 52 things I learned in 2024

50 years ago today, Cleveland hosted 'Ten-Cent Beer Night' against the Texas Rangers.
About 60,000 beers were consumed by 25,134 fans, seven people were sent to the hospital, and the game was stopped due to drunken rioting.
The Rangers were declared winners via forfeit. https://t.co/2nMnhYB7N9
Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Three Men Make a Tiger: People will believe anything if enough people tell them it’s true. It comes from a Chinese proverb that if one person tells you there’s a tiger roaming around your neighborhood, you can assume they’re lying. If two people tell you, you begin to wonder. If three say it’s true, you’re convinced there’s a tiger in your neighbor... See more
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Compassion Fade : People have more compassion for small groups of victims than larger groups, because the smaller the group the easier it is to identify individual victims.