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TIL 70% of adult raccoons carry a parasite that will eat your brains and eyeballs.

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BKnx TIL that Andrew Jackson carried a locket with a picture of his deceased wife, Rachel Jackson, and propped it up in front of his bed every night so that she would be the last thing he saw when falling asleep and the first thing when he woke up.
9O87 TIL that in 1977, a man attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of the NYC subway. He survived but was injured, and then received $650,000 in a settlement because the subway operator had “not stopped fast enough”.
ZGPa TIL that today is Kamehameha Day, to celebrate the first king of Hawaii
Mempa Today I learned that there are something called "Binural Beats" that can help with headaches and stress relief in the form of music on YouTube.
5V9jP TIL scientists calculated that a week-long nuclear war involving about 100 nuclear weapons would kill 27 million people directly and 255 million people from starvation, while a week-long war involving 4,400 nuclear weapons would kill 360 million people directly and 5 billion people from starvation.