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TIL when you love getting attention and hate it at the same time is called Hedgehog's dilemma

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1X8P TIL that a former king of Sweden became a pirate after he lost the throne
d871B TIl that Hans Langseth, a Norwegian farmer, travelled across the US as part of a freakshow because of his beard and that when he died, hos beard measured 17.5ft in length.
PbQL TIL animators and fx artists for Disney’s Frozen were sent to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to experience walking, running, and falling in deep snow. Both male and female personnel tried on long skirts to see how they interacted with the snow.
Y78Dr TIL Edmund Hillary (first person to summit Mt Everest) was scheduled to serve as a guide for a flight over Antarctica on Air New Zealand Flight 901, but canceled to instead embark on a US speaking tour. Flight 901 ended up crashing into Mt Erebus, killing all onboard.
oBK7W TIL that Blackpanthers planned a free breakfast program for children but the Chicago cops broke into the church they were holding it in the night before and Urinated on all the food. Regardless of the delay the program continued and fed tens of thousands of hungry kids over the span of many years.