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TIL that binge watchers are 98% more likely to suffer from poor sleep quality compared to those who did not identify as a binge viewer

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nWxgY TIL Heaven's Gate purchased alien abduction insurance for fifty of it's members that would pay out $1M if someone was abducted, impregnated, or killed by space aliens.
1BYO TIL that just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue correspondent, Elizabeth Miller entered Hitler’s abandoned apartment and was photographed taking a bath in his tub
rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.
5npP TIL prior to the 1970’s, South Africa sold a ‘jawbreaker’ like candy called “Niggerballs”.
XE1R8 TIL "Yellow Journalism" was a 1890's term for journalism that presented little or no legitimately researched news and instead used eye-catching headlines, sensationalism, and scandal-mongering.