TIL Plato wrote that a nation should be led by its most curious, benevolent, just, kind, and altruistic individuals. He called them Philosopher Kings. They would spend their entire life preparing for this role. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius was said to best exemplify this idea. [source, comments]

TIL coal power plants produce nearly 10x the radiation of nuclear plants in order to generate the same electricity output [source, comments]

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TIL of the single tax movement (aka geoism or georgism), an economic ideology where that the government should be funded by a tax on land rent rather than taxes on labor [source, comments]

Die Schweiz(er Parteienlandschaft) ist auch im internationalen Vergleich überdurchschnittlich polarisiert. Und die Polarisierung scheint weiter zuzunehmen. Https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/politische-polarisierung-so-polarisiert-ist-die-schweiz-ein-grafischer-ueberblick-733722800369

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