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TIL that there’s a word for the day after tomorrow: overmorrow.

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E10Ed TIL Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear attack on North Korea while drunk
l7v91 TIL of Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Her research showed that children in the city of Flint, Michigan had elevated levels of lead in their blood due to the contaminated water supply
jNWVp TIL of Georgy Malenkov. Though he led the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, he eventually lost an internal power struggle with Khrushchev. He was demoted to be a manager of a hydroelectric plant in Kazakhstan and lived out the rest of his life in utter obscurity
N901 TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.
4XZ8w TIL about Fremdscham, the opposite of schadenfreude. Fremdscham is the feeling of embarrassment from observing the embarrassing actions of another person.