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TIL that (almost) everybody is your 16th cousin

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Z8ZPv TIL The High Place Phenomenon, also known as "The Call of the Void" is a sudden, strong, but usually very quickly dismissed, urge to do something incredibly stupid, usually associated with jumping off a high place.
j6pwR TIL about Reba Z. Whittle, an American flight nurse who, in 1944, became the only military female prisoner of war in the European Theater of World War 2. The German doctor who treated her injuries said:"Too bad having a woman as you are the first one and we don't know exactly what to do."
v1Gd4 TIL George Orwell was painfully dying of tuberculosis when he wrote 1984, and he died very shortly after he handed it in to his publisher.
QNWde TIL 69 is the only number whose square (4761) and cube (328509) use every decimal digit from 0–9 exactly once.
6Dgl TIL that the most lethal sport riot in history happened in Constantinople AD 532, was over chariot racing, and saw tens of thousands dead and half the city destroyed.