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TIL The Sense of Being Stared At Has A Name - "Scopaesthesia"

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d8d1E TIL in 2020, California experienced its first "gigafire" (a fire that burns more than a million acres) in modern history. The August Complex fire burned an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.
P5Ww TIL the Kodak company used a 13-month calendar from 1924 to 1989 and George Eastman pushed for its worldwide acceptance.
VMdN8 TIL that in 1964, Robert Peabody was exposed to 7 Sieverts/10K rads of radiation after confusing his chemicals, adding uranium solution instead of trichloroethane to his Uranium-235 mixture. He died 49 hours later.
m1mPM TIL an artist created 90 pieces of artwork which are just cans of his feces. The most recent sale for one of the cans was about $291,000 usd. I learned this on QI.
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