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TIL "アニメ/Anime" and "コスプレ/Kosupure" (cosplay) were borrowed from English, then later reborrowed back into English

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EgKrx TIL a 2023 study compared the health outcomes of over 4,000 patients with hypochondriasis to the health outcomes of about 40,000 control patients matched for age & other demographics; a key finding was that people with hypochondriasis were over four times more likely to die from suicide.
Oowj1 TIL that Mahatama Gandhi modeled his Dandi march from Boston tea party. He always quoted about American struggle for independence in his speeches. He even flavored his tea with salt, while signing Gandhi Irwin Pact to commemorate the influence of Boston Tea Party in his satyagraha.
kOlQE TIL that methane bubbles can become frozen in place in many lakes such as Lake Baikal in Russia. The ice thickness there can reach 2 m/6.5 ft during the peak of winter coldness, trapping millions of cubic feet of methane gas under the ice until Spring arrives.
ZwQ4 TIL that first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal was 120,000 years old
JJnB TIL Raisa Gorbachev once told a British minister there were more than 300 ways to cook potatoes in the USSR. When he had doubts, she sent him a cookbook and a note: “My apologies for being somewhat inaccurate: in fact, there are five hundred, rather than three hundred, recipes to cook potatoes.”