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TIL that constantly day dreaming and using it to distract from the real world is an actual mental illness called maladaptive daydreaming.

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VBm TIL Scotland has it’s own species of wildcat, and there are only 400 left.
R70rw TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering 'financial compensation' to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000
16w7D TIL that according to etymologists and all searches conducted of historical usage, the term “bucket list” as the idiom we know today was never used in any book, newspaper, or publication until the movie “The Bucket List” came out in 2007. All prior uses have been debunked as misdated.
lNm5 TIL A science set which allowed children to play with radioactive materials at home was available between 1950 and 1951
d8dZr TIL in 1830, the UK grew increasingly worried about a war starting between France and the Netherlands. To solve this problem, a 'buffer' country was formed in between them to ease tensions: Belgium.