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TIL In Japan people literally work themselves to death so often that they have a term for it. Karoshi

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9Y54m TIL That recurring "common dreams" can reveal your current mental state.
ADQxo TIL German Shepherds are prone to getting hip displasia as a result of breeding for specific cosmetic traits. This unethical breeding has turned a once robust breed into a frail breed disproportionately prone to musculoskeletal disorders, osteoarthritis, diarrhea, obesity, and behavioral problems.
OyO4 TIL that former world chess champion Gary Kasparov is a supporter of the pseudohistorical theory known as ‘New Chronology’, which claims that nearly everything we know about historical chronology is wrong, and that almost all of known human history actually happened after AD 1000.
J1n14 TIL when US President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, the city's best surgeon Roswell Park, was operating on someone else in Niagra Falls. When they told him he was needed in Buffalo, he responded that he could not leave, even for the President of the United States. He was then told who had been shot.
W7BeL TIL a WWII German fighter aircraft, the BF-109, had a unique weapon design - cannon which was installed in the engine and fired through the propeller hub