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TIL the girl from PlayStation's 1999 "Mental Wealth" commercial is now a professional photographer

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LQ0lZ TIL that the first presentation of Tourette syndrome (a neurological disorder characterised by the presence of motor and vocal tics) is thought to be in the 15th-century book Malleus Maleficarum, which describes a priest whose tics were "believed to be related to possession by the devil".
mxvbR TIL a 12-year-old slave named Edmond Albius revolutionized vanilla by developing a novel pollinization technique
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.
4XEZ6 TIL that the famous 500 year old Treaty Oak was deliberately vandalized in 1989 with enough herbicide to kill over 100 oak trees. It managed to survive and still thrives today, albeit two-thirds it’s original size
XWPR TIL that Danny DeVito was hired for TV Show Taxi after he came in for the audition during a long casting process and said “Which of you guys wrote this shit”