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TIL researchers have found that people are more likely to engage in sexual and aggressive behaviors when drunk in societies where it’s commonly believed that alcohol intoxication leads to those behaviors; this phenomenon is known as the ‘think-drink effect’.

p8nA8 TIL that in 1922 a suitcase containing almost everything the young Ernest Hemingway had written up to that time was stolen in a train station in Paris. No trace of this suitcase has ever been discovered, despite the fact that the unpublished stories it contained would be incredibly valuable.
nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
1aRWO TIL in December 1982, when Paul Allen was sick with cancer, he overheard Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing his lack of contributions and how to dilute his equity by offering stock options to other employees and shareholders. Allen confronted them and quit a little bit later.
79A7 TIL that when ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ began, Patrick Stewart dreaded having to learn and recite technobabble dialogue. He got used to doing so, however, and “space-time continuum” became his favorite technical phrase.
PZpV TIL: There is mental disorder called Maladaptive Daydreaming which causes people to excessively daydream to escape reality as a defense mechanism due to trauma usually from abuse