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TIL Michael Phelps contemplated suicide after the 2012 Olympics, in which he won four gold and two silver medals.

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Gn6J TIL that Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin Skywalker) retired from acting, destroyed all of his Star Wars memorabilia, and refuses to watch any of the movies because he finds them too “creepy”.
b9b67 TIL the word potassium is derived frm 'potash.' This preindustrial way to produce water-soluble possasium was by burning plant matter then soaking the ashes with water in a pot.
v1oB4 TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia's apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.
oRZjA TIL when Frank Zappa was a kid, he always played with mercury that his father brought home from work, often covering his entire bedroom floor with the element. Childhood exposure to mercury is known to increase the risk of prostate cancer as an adult. Frank Zappa died from prostate cancer at age 52.
pQbp TIL A recent study of toxoplasmosis shows no link with behavioral abnormalities