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TIL that there's a condition called Fregoli delusion, where individuals believe that different people they meet are actually the same person in disguise.

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xVZZw TIL: An artist active in Grenada mounted dozens of realistic statues underwater to provide "habitat for filter-feeding organisms." The submerged sculpture garden Jason de Caires Taylor built gets visits from divers and tourists in clear-bottomed boats as well as tropical fish.
4XAja TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.
gJPL TIL that a successful attempt at breaking the altitude record for a helicopter resulted in an engine failure which led to a world record for the longest autorotation of a helicopter.
d8Med TIL there are multiple republics within Russia with their own governments and ethnicities including the Mari El folk who are one of the last remaining strongholds for practicing paganism.