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TIL the paramedic who pulled baby Jessica from the well in 1993 suffered PTSD from the event and later committed suicide

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gM0R7 TIL the lyrics to the music in the game Neir:Automata were invented by listening to songs in many languages and jumbling them up together and trying to imagine what they would sound like after 1000 years of drifting.
gMmZL TIL in Japan, establishments like banks & convenience stores visibly keep baseball-sized orange orbs behind the counter. These “anticrime color balls” are filled with bright pigment that burst on impact & are for employees to lob at robbers (or getaway vehicles) to improve the chance of arrest.
YpQoW TIL that male horses are often "fixed" to make them less aggressive and easier to control, then they are called a "gelding"
PenV TIL there is a village in the Netherlands comprised entirely of people with dementia. It’s been called a “Truman Show for the elderly.”
BrMQd TIL that purple and violet aren't the same thing. While violet is the name for the colour at the end of the light spectrum, purple is just the name for the combination of red and blue.