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TIL: The “Imp of the Perverse” is the term for random thoughts or a person’s impulse to do something crazy like drive off a bridge.

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vn1j TIL: Stella Liebeck, defendant in the 90’s McDonald’s Hot Coffee suit, suffered horrific third degree pelvic burns and spent eight days in the hospital for burn grafts. I grew up thinking this was a frivolous case for a victim that suffered no injury at all.
8aGrZ TIL in 1944, 22-year-old Corporal Anthony Damato threw himself on an enemy hand grenade, saving the lives of his two Marines at the cost of his own life. President Roosevelt later awarded him the Medal of Honor calling it a "fearless and valiant sacrifice reflecting great upon himself and the US".
780xP TIL Mel Brooks wrote the lyrics to the Sherwood Forest Rap
kJaOe TIL about Leo Major, a Canadian soldier who liberated a village alone during WWII, and later captured Hill 355 with 18 men during the Korean war, fighting thousands of men
PY7PO TIL New Zealand’s biggest export sector is its agriculture but its farmers, unlike US and EU farmers, receive zero government subsidies.