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TIL: There Is A Town Which Is Literally Living Under A Rock

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ne0Lb TIL about culture-bound syndromes, psychiatric/medical disorders that are only found in specific cultures/groups.
kORje TIL that the tiniest piece of ceramic (like from a broken sparkplug) can shatter tempered glass with minimum force.
Zp6oG TIL the Eglinton Crosstown LRT took so long to build a comedian named Jacob Balshin threw a quinceanera celebration at Cedarvale station (one of the interchange stations) to make 15 years of construction a few months before it opened.
69ooX TIL that Billy Bob Thornton was really (really!) drunk for the Bad Santa mall scene
KZZB TIL two years after Paul Revere’s ride, 16-year-old Sybil Ludington undertook a similar ride to raise the local militia, but she rode twice as far as Revere. In the rain. And fought off a highwayman with a musket.