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TIL The largest ever study on narcissism found that Baby Boomers score higher on hypersensitivity and narcissism tests than millennials.

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b6JPa TIL there are at least 40,000 native speakers of Ladin as of 2011, a written and spoken language in the Dolomite Mountains with similarities to Romansh (in Switzerland) and Friulian (in Italy). A standard form was developed for use in the whole Ladin-speaking region and is used on traffic signs
woww1 TIL: Historian Herodotus described a hairy fox-sized “ant” in Asia that dug up gold from the earth, which would be collected by locals. This was likely the Himalayan marmot, which often makes its burrows in gold-rich soil. Tribal peoples of Pakistan have collected the gold for generations.
7LgO TIL of BAHFest, a satirization of TED talks produced to demonstrate that you could use a bad ad-hoc hypothesis to demonstrate anything. Like why babies are designed to be catapulted.
vMeR TIL that when a school shooter killed 5 amish girls at an amish school, the amish community responded by starting a charity fund for the family of the shooter.
epK9E TIL David Lynch did a commercial for PlayStation 2.