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Today I learned Afrin addiction was a thing.

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VMGV0 TIL that Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka was so obsessed with his former lover Alma Mahler, widow of composer Gustav, that in 1918 he commissioned a life-sized fetish doll that he wished to 'embrace'. He was dissatisfied with the doll but did several paintings of it. Eventually, he beheaded it.
8dgG TIL The White Ship disaster, 1120, in which drowned William Adelin, the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England, his half-sister Matilda, and his half-brother Richard, leading to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England known as the Anarchy.
R7AM8 TIL that solar power is the cheapest form of energy in history at $32.78 per MWh, and 62% of renewable energy sources are cheaper than fossil fuels overall.
R75ej TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by "cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone"
nWd89 TIL about "salad stacking," a fad where Chinese Pizza Hut customers built towering salads to bypass the "one trip, one bowl" rule, even sharing tips to maximize height.